Posted on 10/14/2022 3:34:10 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Emily Hanford became famous over the last several years for talking constantly about the Science of Reading. That's where children learn to read in the simplest, most efficient way and go on to enjoy many hundreds of books. Long story short, what she means by the Science of Reading is phonics — nothing less, nothing else.
The problem is that the left in our country forced phonics into oblivion starting in 1931. So what was going on for those 90 years from 1931 to now? A titanic and quite stupid con, that's what.
Basically, the professors of education at Harvard and such places identified and codified the things that work — and then (this is my summary) they made sure that none of those things are allowed in the schools. Only methods known NOT to work are praised in our classrooms. The simplest, most appropriate name for this approach is the Science of Illiteracy.
Sometimes the impression is given that these professors drifted around from one method to another. That's actually not true. They have only one method — but it has many names (such as sight-words and Whole Word) — and they are content to hide inside the confusion they create.
Reading consists of learning two things: letters and sounds. If you're not focusing on letters and sounds, you don't have phonetic instruction of a phonetic language.
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“Reading consists of learning two things: letters and sounds. If you’re not focusing on letters and sounds, you don’t have phonetic instruction of a phonetic language.
The literary money-shot in this one.
My children were reading at age 4...all of them. Why? Because my wife believed in phonics as a path to literacy, and we read to these kids...EVERY DAY.
If you aren’t yet convinced that the elite despise the people, the teaching of whole language reading might change your mind.
It’s a form of black lung.
That was one of my spelling words in the 7th grade which is why that came mind.
I had kind of a cranky English teacher.
No time for reading and writing. Johnny and Sally need to get their genitals removed after the drag show.
Every community, even every school, has a different experience. The education establishment, and this is my impression, will take what it can get. If parents don’t complain, their kids will be trampled on.
Excellent response. You have explained the essence of Common Core everything. It is designed to be difficult. It is anti-child. It is anti-education. It is anti-common sense as you suggest.
People have to fight this garbage, that’s the only way home.
The following article provides a short summary of where we are: The War Against Children. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/k12_the_war_against_children.html
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