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Phonics vs. Sight-Words / VIDEO
YouTube ^ | January, 2011 | Bruce Deitrick Price

Posted on 09/24/2016 1:39:16 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice

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To: exDemMom

Please note Don Potter’s favorite approach: Blend Phonics

Nobody stays at the pronunciation of letters for more than a few months. You quickly move to blends. Two-letter blends and then three-letter blends.

Once you blend, for example, F plus L plus 0 to create a new sound—flo— you no longer deal with the letters or sound them out. So a long word like “flotation” is very simple. Three common blends, and you’re done.

A word like that would almost never be mastered by a sight-word reader.

In fact one of the jokes about sight-word readers is that all long words starting with V, for example, become basically the same word. Victory, victims, Virgin, vigilant, vigilante, violent, virulent, vigorous, virtuous, virtual, Viceroy, vitamin, and many more. The poor soul has to plug in all these words until one of them seems to make sense.


21 posted on 09/24/2016 2:39:40 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice (education reform)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

the NEA and the FEDS think that if non-whites know the ABC’s and can count to 100,they don’t need to know anymore.


22 posted on 09/24/2016 2:47:53 PM PDT by maddogtiger
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Hmmmm .... learn a hundred or so sounds and blends or hundreds of thousands of words by sight? The choice seems clear to me. Young tots quickly learn the sounds different animals make and they can quickly learn the sounds different letters make. I sang my kids (and now my grandkids) an alphabet song,”A says a [long a] or ah,B says buh, C says kuh or sss, etc., and from having learned the sounds the letters make, it’s as small jump to sounding out words.


23 posted on 09/24/2016 2:59:57 PM PDT by Kipp
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

The written English language was constructed phonetically, using our 26 letter alphabet. There is absolutely no arguing that fact.

That being so, it is practically criminal to teach it in any other way - especially given the fact that it has been done easily and very successfully since the middle ages.


24 posted on 09/24/2016 3:38:08 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice
Save Free Republic from these horrible word videos. Why put words in a stupid video that takes 4 times as long to read than just text and uses more bandwidth/data? Stupid Stupid Stupid. Somebody can play with Microsoft Powerpoint. Whoopee. Lets use different fonts and swipes. This is as bad as videos of some slooooow talker spouting words.

If you have a word message, type it out and post it as text so it can be read, or at least have a link to a text version.

25 posted on 09/24/2016 3:47:07 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Anyone raised on “Dick and Jane” books? Gorgeous illustrations. Lovely, happy stories for 1st graders. But whole word reading was the method used, and parents, like my mom, taught phonics at home. This method caused dyslexia in me, not severely, but enough to misread words and numbers.


26 posted on 09/24/2016 3:56:32 PM PDT by The Westerner (Will Free Republic exist when ICANN controls the web?)
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Bruce,
Thank you for posting this! Just watched after my previous comment. What a great video! I will share it with others. Keep bumping this up every so often so those who missed it will get another chance to watch it.
The Westerner


27 posted on 09/24/2016 4:05:45 PM PDT by The Westerner (Will Free Republic exist when ICANN controls the web?)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

I could write my name before 1st grade but couldn’t read nor did I really understand th alphabet. Thankfully my 1st grade teacher taught phonics using the McMillan Dot & Jim series. I can still remember the moment that letters and words suddenly made sense to me. The class worked in group and the teacher called us up individually so she could help those struggling with what she was teaching. She went over those words with me coaxing me to figure it out how letters could become words when suddenly Tag became not just letters but the name of the dog belonging to the children in the book and suddenly I could read and have never stopped. Thanks Miss Katzman where ever you are.


28 posted on 09/24/2016 4:08:56 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460
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Once they know the sounds they try to read by themselves. One of mine with a few basics b and oo spells BOO which must mean that b-o-o-k spells bouquet. Lol this particular grown child of mine I know still reads. Not sure about the others but this one does read books or are they bouquets? Lol


29 posted on 09/24/2016 4:17:51 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460
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By the time I see these students in middle school, I have to figure where they fell off the wagon. A couple quick assessments and I can get them on track....but they often remain behind. I use REWARDS, a multisyllabic approach to phonics for secondary students. Some are not wired for sounds and symbols...while others have had some horrible prior instruction. A few students require a whole different program that is very intensive.


30 posted on 09/24/2016 4:19:16 PM PDT by chalkfarmer
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By the time I see these students in middle school, I have to figure where they fell off the wagon. A couple quick assessments and I can get them on track....but they often remain behind. I use REWARDS, a multisyllabic approach to phonics for secondary students. Some are not wired for sounds and symbols...while others have had some horrible prior instruction. A few students require a whole different program that is very intensive.


31 posted on 09/24/2016 4:19:17 PM PDT by chalkfarmer
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Phonics is s tool as is memorization, recitation and rote learning. Without tools how does one survive and thrive?


32 posted on 09/24/2016 4:20:10 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460
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To: \/\/ayne

I taught both of my sons to read at home using basic phonics. The two of them had strikingly different learning styles but it was not difficult for either one of them. When he finally entered the public classroom at Grade 10, one thing my older boy said he didn’t like about school was that it took too much time away from his reading.


33 posted on 09/24/2016 4:27:37 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Don't let school interfere with your education." - Mark Twain)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Yes, in Jr High, the teacher caught me reading a book behind the textbook once and called in my mother, who asked the teacher to give me a quick test on the textbook. I was able to answer every question!


34 posted on 09/25/2016 8:01:11 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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