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To: hsmomx3

Same. I'm very math literate but mine have never had to ask me any questions when using the Saxon books.

I had a teacher tell me one time that phonics was a very weak way to teach reading. I asked her for the studies proving her assertion, and she couldn't come up with any. I handed her a copy of Rudolph Flesh's book "Why Johnny Can't Read", asked her to read it and check out all the research cited, then get back to me on any that proved any other method was better.

LOL she wouldn't talk to me after that.

Once mine read her first book by herself, I'd take a big bag to the library every week to keep her in reading material. It was too expensive to buy her all the books she wanted.


13 posted on 10/30/2006 1:39:57 PM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: cinives

Funny how my kids learned how to read before the age of 5 using a phonics-based method. No way will the govt. schools do this as they will not get all of the $$$$ they request because Johnny can't read.


15 posted on 10/30/2006 1:42:34 PM PST by hsmomx3 (Steelers in '07--Go BIG BEN!!!)
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