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To: driftdiver

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sight_word


4 posted on 03/22/2013 10:39:06 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: US Navy Vet

Thanks for this link. (I’ll probably try to edit the thing.)

That’s the latest jargon. The essential point is that a word is treated as a diagram or graphic design, like a currency symbol or &. It has no phonetic content. You have to memorize it or you don’t.

From 1932 to 2000, reading was taught through the use of sight-words. Not the alphabet or the sounds. Children memorized every word as a sight-word. So we have massive functional illiteracy.... and dyslexia.


6 posted on 03/22/2013 11:17:33 AM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice (education reform)
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