Posted on 10/07/2020 3:03:49 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Kids love to learn! And they love the attention from their parents. It’s a win-win all around! I spent hours with them teaching them to write their letters and simple words, reading books and even doing simple math. I have coloring books with all the pages filled with letters they wrote. No coloring of the pictures, just letters all over the page.
They speak of those times with such love.
You have given your grandkids a gift they will treasure for all of their lives. What a blessing for you all.
I use the Megawords series at the high school level. It’s a multisensory and systematic approach for decoding and encoding multisyllabic words. At first, students think I’m treating them like babies, but eventually they look forward to Word Study Wednesday. When I teach the “ible” and “able” rule, they never forget! Kids need explicit instruction when they are struggling readers.
When I teach the “ible” and “able” rule, they never forget!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Okay, I’m intrigued. I didn’t realize there was a rule for that.
Got it. If you remove the ending and you’re left with a real word, you use “able.” If removing the ending leaves a broken stump, it’s “ible.”
https://grammarist.com/usage/able-ible/
You’re a high school teacher, you should be able to make a difference.
If you’d like to write a tell-all so people know what’s going on, i’ll fix it so your identity is hidden and I’ll publish it somewhere.
Bruce Deitrick Price
Getting rid of phonics is an important step to eventual enslavement. Slaves aren’t supposed to be literate.
I retired from teaching last summer. I taught high school biology and chemistry. Low literacy was a serious problem, even among AP students. Average students couldn't extract meaning from their textbooks and mostly ignored reading assignments. Kids are being cheated of their future.
I have a notion of where things have gone off track in the last several decades. It starts at primary then secondary and continues into higher education. There are exceptions to this but they are infrequent.
Our education method is at its root teaching what to think as opposed to how to think. These are not the same thing. There’s a baseline needed of course on the what side bit the failure is neglecting the how to think side. Myself as an example, I came out of college filled to overflowing with the what to think. Then I was thrown into an unstructured R&D environment where there were no text books or higher mentors to fill in the blanks and further stuff my noggin. Virtually nothing I came out of college with have I used exactly as was crammed into me. I was successful though although my career breadth has certainly not been typical.
It took me years to realize it but I had one prof my last 2 semesters that opened the door into how to solve things that are outside the comfort zone. From the persons I have crossed paths with, probably the ones that are consistently at higher on the how to think scale are those with classical educations i.e. philosophy, languages, theology and such. Blend this with a science or other such fields and you have something powerful. For me though, i am not at that level although I have two STEM degrees (geek) but had the good fortune to grow up on a ranch so have always had an appreciation for bailing wire, duct tape and a big hammer.
Key thought... How to think is for working through the unknown and what to think is punching a time clock.
I have a McGuffeys Eclectic Readers Series, Primer to Fourth.
THE primary English books of the late 1800’s into the 1900’s. What a fourth grader was exposed to then versus now...we’ve lost so much.
A1912 eighth grade exam: https://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html
“Our education method is at its root teaching what to think as opposed to how to think.”
Yep. That is critical thinking skill, and it is not taught and certainly NOT welcomed in today’s pubic schools and colleges.
Our schools are now full-blown cultural Marxism indoctrination centers.
Critically thinking students would ask logical questions of their indoctrinators that would expose their lies. Can’t have that!
Whew! I just looked at that exit exam. I’m no flea-scratching, mouth breathing primate, but that would take me a while. Admittedly, the English and the math would be fine.
Whe have lost SO much, you are right.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.