Posted on 10/07/2020 3:03:49 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
I swear we became good readers because of comic books. It doesn’t matter WHAT you read....it’s just the practice of reading.
OK!
Now that these stinking communist-indoctrinators admit their guilt, line them up at the neighborhood gallows and make’em dance...
KDramas!! some real good movies, with no sex in your face, and you have to read subtitles!! had my kids hooked on them by the time they wewr 10!!
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I was reading before I started school..
My mom taught me.
What a concept.
My dad read comic books to me very night when I was 3-5. After that, I read to him until I was about 8. I graduated from “Sad Sack” to “Classics Illustrated” on to “Phantom Stranger” in that time and my reading comprehension (which was tested every semester) was off the charts. Teachers were actually borrowing my comics to teach other kids. You’re right; it’s just the practice and those gave us plenty of practice that we enjoyed.
The state of New York recently passed a law requiring prospective school teachers to take a literacy test to get their license, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of whites, 54 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks failed on the first try.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html
Sure explains a lot.
Unbelievable!
26 letters, 44 sounds, and 144 ways to represent those sounds....once you crack the code, you can concentrate on comprehending the words on the page.
I started screaming about this about 30 years ago when my daughter entered K. I wound up pulling her out and teaching her myself. When I did a lot of research and discovered the theory behind “whole language”, I was stunned that teachers were foolish enough to not only believe this, but believe it with a religious fervor.
I fought with the system and finally got some phonetic teaching introduced, but the teachers really didn’t even know how it worked. They had also been so brainwashed that they had nothing but disdain for it.
I decided that the “whole language” method of NOT teaching reading, along with the disastrous “child-centered learning” was brought in INTENTIONALLY, for the purpose of dumbing down future generations. Even more so, I stand by that today.
Privatizing all education would be a minimum for a good start.
I’m a high school English teacher, and I am dismayed at the lack of literacy I see among my students. The majority don’t read, only the really smart ones do, and texting has dumbed them down so much it’s chilling. The gen pop kids have no idea just how stupid they are. The smart kids are in IB and AP.
What’s IB?
The cool thing about comic books was trading them. We always had a stack.
Taught both my kids before kindergarten as well. Both were leaders in groups helping others to learn. Was blessed to be home with them and not working outside the home.
Used phonetics to do so.
International Baccalaureate, its one step above AP. So think really high strung kids worrying about their gpa daily. I’d rather teach the hoodrats, honestly. When you reach one or two, you REALLY reach them and they never forget it.
And, I’m really on the downlow in my school. They are rabid leftists... and a few years ago, I turned one of my at risk kids into a conservative on the DL. So... I’m seriously a true subversive in enemy territory.
There are 2 sets of rules that have been forgotten since the mid 1800s.
The silent letter rules and the substitute letter rules.
I stuck them on one of my websites so anybody can take them for free, no click bait.
We used them when we homeschooled, very effective.
You might see a thing about t-shirts for sale.
I no longer do that.
One of my grandkids was struggling learning to read in 1st grade so I got involved to assist. So, first thing I did was to get a couple of large sets of flash cards. First set was phonics and second phased in words with the phonics. He had reading homework most days that would be a few sentences, usually a rhyme or something like that. He was a an inaudible mumbler so to break out of that, I turned the reading into a fun game instead of torture. Imagine a Shakespearean actor reading Hickory Dickory Dock or reading it to a rap beat. Hehehe... So, this was the first grader but included in the deal were his preK and third grade sisters, all of us at the kitchen table. The preK was soon able to phonically sound out then read simple words with no pictures and the 3 grader to up her game in reading.
I am so PO’d at how the teaching profession has screwed up several generations of K-12 students and more recently moved on to screwing up higher education.
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