Posted on 06/06/2020 7:01:07 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Phonics is how I learned to read and certainly memorized tons of words for spelling tests.
The education-industrial-complex is a *Big*Fat*Festering*Pimple. It needs to be squeezed from every side.
Keep up the pressure on informing the public about the abusive teaching practices. These methods **hurt** children and destroy futures.
I will squeeze from the side of promoting free market options.
Another Reason to Homeschool.
The teaching methods promoted in the government schools are child abuse. Wise and caring parents will do everything possible to get their children out of these **Toxic**Waste**Dumps**!
I taught all of my kids with phonics. They are all excellent readers.
I learned with phonics too. I can sound out any word, including foreign words.
Me too. I learned Italian first, then English and also a few others.
I taught my son to sound out words long before school... ok, maybe not real long before... it was a game.
I, too, taught my kids using Phonics. I’m also teaching my grand-daughters as well.
I used Rod and Staff in the mid ‘90’s.
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PLEASE note: many boys aren’t ready to learn to read until 8 or 9. Reading is immaterial - understanding is. I homeschooled my son because he was wicked smart - asking what were essentially physics questions at the age of 5. When listening to a history lesson about the Assyrians, chariots, and the spoked wheel, he stopped driving his cars around the floor (he needed to be in the room as I taught his older sister), he stopped dead, looked up, “Oh, spoked wheel!” I had no idea he knew what that was. That could go really FAST. It COULD TURN FAST! He was so excited about the idea of chariots and spoked wheels! No need to interrupt his learning with reading. He aced college English at 16, got into an honors college, etc. Please - do not tell your sons they’re dumb if they don’t read or talk — it’s not what their brains are wired to do . . . yet! Einstein, Edison, lots of others.
My mother taught all 6 of us to read with phonics, each by the age of 4. I really don’t remember how the school taught reading, because I already could read when I got there.
Wouldn't it be loverly?
Wow!
I never understood why teaching phonetically based alphabetic English as if it were hieroglyphics ever made sense to anyone.
I’m amazed by all the comments I get from parents who say their children learned to read at three or four.
But in general, we can’t design schools and education around exceptional children, such as your son. He’ll do okay no matter what happens.
l’m always thinking of the average children. I hope they will learn to read by 4 or 5. In that way they’re defended against the worst effects of the public schools.
We have 40-50 million functional illiterates. Think about it. Let’s not do anything that slows down more and better reading.
Blend Phonics is highly recommended by Don Potter, my favorite expert.
BP is short, it’s cheap, and it sticks to the essentials. One problem we have in public schools is they will claim to be teaching phonics but it’ll be some pseudo-phonics with lots of things in it you don’t want.
I was a pain in the ass to kindergarten and elementary teachers after that, reading the instructions and finishing worksheets before they had time to read the instructions to us.
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