I’M lysdexic
whats a sight word?
As someone who is not a party to this argument, I would at least question studies that are done by proponents of one side or the other.
I’m sorry, but are the people that wrote the article stupid or something???? Dyslexia is an umbrella term that just means someone with language issues. Nobody has it the same. My daughter has it and some of the issues are auditory processing disorder, visual processing disorder, etc. Now what in the heck does that have to do with sight words???
Maybe there is a group of people that have issues with reading because of sight words, but you can’t use a broad brush when talking about this disorder. It is disrespectful to those that have serious learning issues.
“...Dyslexics against drugs...just say ON!!”
But a thought: Site/Word reading removes the sequencing in the brain that aids in recall and spelling. Phonics or “sound it out” keeps the sequence in place and likely fights the potential for dyslexia.
Research suggestion: diagnosis of dyslexia over time compared to reading taught through phonics and then through whole word.
Thinking that the number starts to jump after the whole word begins to become entrenched in the curriculum.
I was taught to re ad with what you call sight words, and I am not dyslexic.No one I went to school with and grew up with is dyslexic. So I wonder what you are talking about
I got my youngest son ready for school with phonics pre-reading. A year later, he came home guess reading.
He invented fantastic stories! Wrong! But very creative. He got stars and happy faces galore.
When it was time for homeschool, he told me that I am the meanest mother in the town because he had to we had to unlearn public school “methods” and relearn how to read and comprehend. That was funny...looking back. Not so much during.