Worked with my daughter. She's now a nurse. Graduated with a 3.8 GPA.
Posted on 07/28/2018 5:06:38 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Start by teaching the child to read. Schools only do Social Justice horse crap anymore.
Buy a book and teach him.
Step 1 is ALWAYS get them out of publik skools.
Worked with my daughter. She's now a nurse. Graduated with a 3.8 GPA.
The answer is private school or a tutor. Public education in the USA is Liberal garbage and has been since the mid 1960’s.
I removed my daughter from the Plano, Texas ISD many years ago and put her in private school. She was throwing books at the wall in frustration when she couldn’t read. She was in the first or second grade at the time. Within three weeks the private school teacher had her reading two grade levels up.
Parentin iz soo hard
I started grade school in 1955 and we were taught reading using phonics, not sight words. Same with my son and daughter in the early ‘90s. When did sight words in school become common place?
Buy some phonics workbooks for your children. Teach them yourself.
Yeah. Break out the phonics books and teach ‘em. Run some simple tests and flash cards to get an idea of how far along they are and what gaps in fundamental knowledge they may have. Then go to work.
I can’t believe you posted this. I was JUST about to pull up youtube’s on teaching reading. I am teaching a 25 year old guy right now and the sight word problem is EXACTLY the problem. He comes to a word that starts with, say, P and just guesses at words he memorized that start with P and usually aren’t even close to the word at hand.
I’m starting to get the notion that I’m not going to be successful but I refuse to quit. I will review the resources in this article.
I was hated by many of my elementary and middle school teachers since I always read at least a couple levels higher than I was supposed to.
Beautiful opportunity for the church. Of course, we’ll screw it up and won’t do anything.
PHonics
Earobics
OrtonGillingham Approach
I learnt my English in my mid twenty’s. My experience of learning new language is to read intensively on many subjects, with my dictionary and grammar books on side. And also practice writing as well
I learned to read with sight words, but then I live in a very “progressive” state.
I am 7 years older than my sister and I taught her to read. The kindergarten teacher would have her read to her classmates. She also knew how to print her name and simple math.
I started about the same time. We had a good school system, no crap. Only thing weird we ever had was a trial run of new math in 6th grade. After a week or two of that our teacher said “enough” and that was the end of new math.
Whole language is at fault. I was very involved in this years ago. I did many radio shows, ran a tutoring business and schooled my kids and others. I have written my own reading/spelling program and have taught many kids of all ages to read. It’s life changing. The problem is whole language and the almost religious adherence to it.
[ Parentin iz soo hard ]
I know too many parents that both get jobs because they are too lazy to actually parent...
So the mother gets a job that after taxes pays for 75% of “daycare” and after they pick up their kids from “daycare” they blow more money on take out food. Which siphons away another 10% of her income, add in tax and money spent on the mother’s work clothing....
It seems to be that most women who work while having children do so to escape the “burden” (joy) of actually raising their children. Pretending they are some rich aristocrat type that has “people that do that for them.”
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