Not kniggit?
Posted on 12/05/2019 4:42:33 PM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice
Important Ed News ///
Phonics is winning, finally, at long last, after 85 stupid years, after 50 million functional illiterates, after one of the most stubborn subversive schemes against common sense ever to brutalize a country. Finally, the one correct way to teach reading is again embraced as the one correct way to teach reading.
Go ahead, shout "OMG." The fix has been in for so many dumbed down decades that many people may have given up hope. You may think this is now crazy optimism on my part. But I will show you some signs that things have suddenly and surely changed.
First, conservatives must note that the New York Times is finally on the right side of a major debate. It was on the wrong side for a long, long time. I don't know what finally woke those people up. Toward the end of 2018, a seminal article appeared: "Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way?" by Emily Hanford.
The subtitle tells it all: "Teacher preparation programs continue to ignore the sound science behind how people become readers."
Hanford concluded, "To become readers, kids need to learn how the words they know how to say connect to print on the page. They need explicit, systematic phonics instruction. There are hundreds of studies that back this up."
Well, you can imagine the shockwaves circling the globe. Thousands of so-called literacy experts have been sent back to school. Two things kept the hoax going all these years. 1) A mountain of dubious research that 2) an army of education professors flogged to control the debate. The professors will have to work much harder now.
Next, The Atlantic, a prestigious lefty magazine, recently announced, "Phonics, Not Whole Word, Is Best for Teaching Reading."....
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/k12_phonics_is_winning.html#ixzz67HadRmcu
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
One of my grandsons is just two. We have a great video of him "speaking" to me at the dinner table. He gesticulates with his hands. He emphasizes some words over others. He speaks in complex sentences. He enunciates very clearly. And he can carry on for many minutes at a time.
The remarkable thing is that he is not speaking English. It's almost like he has his own language. The sound of it is similar to the main character in the movie "Nell". But in his case it is all self-invented.
“Same here. I may not be classified as a “speed reader” but I read extremely fast compared to most.”
my method is to scan a page vertically, taking in entire lines at a time, looking for the parts that matter, and then slowing down and more carefully studying the important parts ...
speed-reading is the main reason i don’t have the patience to watch most video clips ... the information content to time ratio is very poor in most cases (especially lecture type vids or pontificating type vids), plus there’s not a good way to speed past the parts that are BS, which in the case of most video clips is most of them ... two exceptions though: entertainment vids and vids that demonstrate practical matters, like showing how to take apart, repair, and reassemble things one has never repaired before ...
The arrogant tone of the article implies that the author knows best. Author doesn’t know enough to even know how much they don’t know.
Yeah, just ignore the hundreds of studies that prove you wrong, plus the data that show the massive decline in reading ability in the general population.
After spending time in Japan I strongly disagree that Kanji is not used as much. Kanji still forms the backbone of most of their writing.
I spent two years there.
I brought an awful lot of anime magazines.
Only titles are in kanji.
“It deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.”
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So what’s your point? ;-)
85 years? I was taught phonics all through grade school in the 50s-early 60s. By the time my kids were in grade school in the 80s phonics had gone.
I am not opposed to phonics as it is a necessary skill for when one encounters unfamiliar words. I do believe that phonics should not be the end and as you described, sight reading should be the next “natural” progression to improve reading rate and comprehension.
As for consuming technical material I would say it depends on the technical background. I have found that as I advance in my understanding of networking, topics which I am familiar with can be consumed much faster. I guess it all comes down to one’s habits of reading.
Personal opinion - I believe that phonics can only make someone a marginal speller in English and often works to interfere with proper spelling. My spelling was extremely poor until I learned alternate the alternate pronunciation method.
For example “stomach” I now mentally process as sto-mach not stum-ick for the purpose of spelling the word. “knight” becomes k-night, etc.
I use similar phonetic tricks for spelling.
I have had to become a better speller, to be a better writer.
Spell checkers help a great deal.
You have correctly identified the reason I think the printed word will maintain a place in society.
It is so much faster at imparting the important information. Video/ images have a lot more information, but most of it is not important and/or distracting.
It shows the usefulness of skill in writing.
Not kniggit?
Very true. I much prefer reading to watching.
That being said, when I watch most videos, I up the speed to 1.5 or 2x. (Tip: this doesn’t work well for Ben Shapiro clips becauseheisafasttalkerwhonevertakesanypauses.)
Many of my kids learned to read before the age of one. This article doesn’t address young readers. I mean young. Dr. Titzer is an academic supporting what I say.
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