Posted on 08/27/2022 12:09:27 PM PDT by jdege
I grew up on / in the town of Brentwood, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York during the 1960's. I was never taught a thing about "phonics!" If I remember correctly, I may have been 40 year's old, before I first heard the word phonics, via my kids homework, (Washington State) via my late wife who also came from Long Island. I remember asking, do you brush your teeth or comb your hair with a phonic[s.] Talk about being out of touch, guilty as charged.
We were taught "Whole-Word-Sight-Reading." grade school to High School. It sucked, big time. Not until my mid-to late 30's did I improve my reading skill's (self-taught) reading two to three different newspaper's, thinking I was reading the truth. Didn't take long to realize, Houston we've got a problem, those communist loving snooze-papers were peddling a lot of Bull-Droppings.
Alpha-phonics has a website
That’s because most Boomers had to walk 6 miles to school uphill in the Snowz.
>>An older dictionary allows you to comprehend it.
I have an unabridged dictionary from c. 1980. Someone will have to deal with it after I die, I’m keeping it until then.
Thank you for clarifying that. Skilled readers most certainly do not use the "whole word" system.
I was taught to “sound it out” and was reading novels at 5. I kid you not.
Sat on my dad’s knee and he read the newspapers to me, especially the funnies.
The most modern dictionary I've found with real phonics is the 1934 Websters Collegiate Dictionary.
People who were taught actual phonics know that ‘ph’ is a phonogram for the phoneme ‘fff’ and if you were particularly well taught you would also know that most words using that spelling entered English from the study of classical Greek writers by the educated elites since at least the Roman era.
When I hear about the poor reading (and math and anything else scores) of black children, I have to wonder how many of them have parent(s) who read to them? How many of them have books in the house? I know for a fact that many of them don't even have a public library card---I had to tell them where their nearest public library was and how to get a card in the science classes I taught. They also didn't seem very interested in reading. They'd rather see the video. They don't realize how very limiting poor reading and writing skills are in our modern world.
No, you are incorrect. In Phonics the way to read it is Ph...F sound. The only sound I can recall that the combo ph can make
I definitely walk 2 miles to school, even when it snowed. The schools didn’t shut down, they didn’t send buses in the snow either. They simply delayed school one hour. I could have ridden a bus, but it would entail walking out of my way to the bus stop, by the time I got there, I would be about 1.5 miles from school. Factor in the longer time of travel on the bus, I would beat the bus. When it snowed, I always beat the bus and got to sit in the class room and read MY BOOK I always had with me.
I DO know that.
And I was not taught phonics to know that.
Plenty of kids learn to read without phonics.
Problem really is that the teachers are stupid and there only to keep kids as indoctrinated and stupid as they are.
That is unsurprising. The human brain excels at recognizing and remembering patterns.
The whole point of specific phonics instruction is to save children the trouble of reinventing the wheel, so they can read to learn instead of spending years learning to read.
Litersee be rayciss....
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