Posted on 02/14/2015 2:22:45 PM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice
They made us all bad spellers!
Chinese kids learn several thousand characters. Just sayin’.
Onomatopoeia is a category of words that sound like what they attempt to describe. There is no category of words that look like what they are attempting to describe.
What is the Chinese character for “boob”. (See earlier post)
Don’t forget Spot.
That would probably depend upon which definition of ‘boob’ you were talking about.
“Teach a child what each letter stands for and he can read. I know, you say, it can’t be that simple. But it is.”
Yea, verily! I was able to read about as well as anyone in my one-room country school on the day I first entered the building, because (1)I had been given a colorful alphabet book as a “toy,” and my grandfather (a proxy Dad in my case) satisfied my innate curiosity about the sounds represented by those letters; and (2) books were made available to me at least a year prior to my enrolling in a school, and Grandpa helped me as needed in my attempts to do what came naturally, read.
Much later, my own children, supplied with alphabet books and a mother that would sit down and read to them, at age 4-5 were trying to read the words on the Wheaties box at the breakfast table. Why is it so difficult to teach children something that they want to badly to learn, imitating what they see their parents do?
Possibly I just answered that question.
Here is Mr. Price’s prescription below. Who can argue with any of this except the Universities and Colleges who keep churning out people who have no clue how to teach children anything except SJW propaganda. This abject failure posing as “Formal Education” is a purposeful fraud. If I had a young child these days, he/she would be home schooled using this approach.
1. REAL READING. That means systematic phonics for several months until children learn to read. That means no Whole Word, no sight-words, no Dolch words, no high-frequency words. These gimmicks are all the same thing and the reason we have 50 million functional illiterates.
2. REAL ARITHMETIC. Schools use sensible, coherent programs such as Saxon Math, Singapore Math, or the like. (They do not use Reform Math in any of its forms— Everyday Math, Connected Math, TERC.) Children master basic skills, know the multiplication tables, and can find answers. No more spiraling, fuzziness, or dependence on calculators.
3. REAL LEARNING. It’s knowledge-based and fact-filled. Children learn basic information in the fields of Geography, History, Science, Literature, etc. Students advance in a logical way from the simple to the complex—which leads to genuine critical thinking.
4. REAL EDUCATION. It’s academically correct (as opposed to politically correct). The emphasis is on building study skills and scholarly character. Students know a great deal, and know how to learn more. They can do independent work. They understand that precision, rigor, and honesty are the same things.
They are more desirable in pairs.
Granted, the dialog (or logue) was immature, but the ability to READ was affirmed (imo) through Dick and Jane
Later in life I learned about the McGuffey readers and boy howdy, would I have LOVED them ... or those
Later in life I learned about Muff
We’re talking sight words and giving examples.
I wasn’t.
Creating failure in students by using destructive reading methods creates A LOT of union-dues-paying jobs to "fix" the problem they created. Just sayin ....
Muff?
How about Puff?
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(wiseguy answer to my miss-remembrin')
Look Look O Look
Dick and Jane (and Sally and Spot...) were the genesis of my reading skills.
In fact, I just bought a good start on a full set for my granddaughter. She is to be home-schooled, and her mother knows the value of reading.
All three of our kids were reading before they ever entered school (thanks to my wonderful wife, Mrs. PubliusMM). They learned on Dick and Jane, too.
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