Thanks very much. I’ve heard many criticisms of ‘whole language’, and even with my limited memory of how I learned, I think it’s nuts.
“Thanks very much. I’ve heard many criticisms of ‘whole language’, and even with my limited memory of how I learned, I think it’s nuts.”
You’re welcome. And yes, it is nuts. I think it all stems from adults who believe they’re torturing kids by making them learn stuff that seems useless. The Left calls it “Rote Memorization”, but obviously some memorization is needed to learn anything - they just want the memorization to be instant gratification, like looking at the word “dog” in a passage and immediately recognizing it, rather than struggling to blend the sounds together. Works great for 100, maybe 200, words - the problem is the next 199,800 or so words.