Posted on 07/28/2018 5:06:38 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
I raised our kids reading aloud together in bed for 1/2 hour before bed time, every night, without fail.
When they learned to read, I gave them the choice each night to read or listen. Most of the time they read, but if they were tired they’d let me read to them.
So important!
the other half of kids need solutions too
Not so simple if they have dyslexia.
Barton Reading program really helped my brain-injured daughter to read. It’s a multi-sensory Orton-Gillingham reading program.
My daughter has auditory processing problems and couldn’t hear the difference in sounds. Barton Reading uses lots of tricks to teach phonics rules.
There are other Orton-Gillingham reading programs.
Of course, the public school did nothing.
We put her in a private school that taught her it.
Uhhhh your response was I hope in sarcasm...
The author of the article is a friend of mine and in my view having been involved in education for decades at the professional level (Corporate - technical and other skills) he is an expert in what he says. We have talked many times and all here are in agreement that the removal of the foundations (vowels, phonics etc) has been devastating to anyone who attends a public school pretty much no matter what state you live in.
So if they are tasked with providing this and we as taxpayers fund it then why are they continuing on the same path. It seems to me that if they are supposed to be turning out functional graduates and they are not they are in violation of their contract to “educate” the children in their care. This to me should open the door for alternatives but if you know how it is all wired together even charter school funding has to feed through this parasitic system and in many cases Union Teachers must be hired.
So as many have posited here the only alternative until we can throw the rascals out is to do it ourselves. When my daughter was 3 her education began by me and her grandmother as we;ll as watching a lot of sesame street (circa 1980) When she entered kindergarten she could read, knew all the alphabet, a lot of math and had been taking piano lessons since she was 4.
So Mariner I ask again who your comment is pointed at, as this issue has no color or country of birth associated to it.
Before I went to school, I learned hundreds of words just by watching commercials.
Got to sit and read with your kids. Otherwise you can tie them up in the back yard and have both a poorly behaved dog AND child.
Yep! My brain injured daughter did all 3.
She’s a senior in college with over a 3.8 GPA, and she wants to go to grad school for Biostatistics.
Let them read ANYTHING they want. Even if it's comic books. So long as they are reading. As a child, I went through stacks of comic books, MAD magazine, pulp science fiction and other so-called junk. Eventually I grew bored of that and started reading adult novels, biographies and more challenging reading.
The problem is not with the schools. It's that children come home from school and do nothing but watch TV, play video games or surf YouTube.
I sent all four of my kids thru private schools (and 3 thru college). Best thing I ever did. I’m paying for a few of my grand kids now too.
I pulled it up on amazon and will most likely buy it but let me ask you; does it get alittle more advanced early on after the sounding out of letters? Teaching an adult is different than a little one, as he’s had some schooling (although the schools are pathetic). He knows the alphabet and sounds of letters so I don’t want to get bogged down with things he’s “mastered”.
I read in school. But after teaching roddlers to read, i think that if a kid is basically waiting around for school to start then something is fundamentally wrong.
And Plano is a good school district and Texas tests and treats for dyslexia.
In California, they wouldn’t test or treat my brain-injured daughter.
She was great at site words, but you can only go so far with site words.
Thank God I learned to read in the early ‘70s. My old school teacher, Mrs. Whitaker, made me sound the words out. I deciphered the ‘code’ quickly and NEVER looked back. Growing up in an intellectual family didn’t hurt, either.
Fast forward forty years, I’m a teacher of at-risk kids (gangs, victims of sex trafficking, you name it...) Most of my teens read at a third grade level if at all.
The handful that do read have a better chance at turning their lives around. The ones that don’t — they’re nihilistic and hopeless.
I tutored a 13 year old who was in 5th grade. Used those workbooks for kindergarteners that start from scratch. I think they are still available near coloring books in stores and do not cost much.
Phonics is the only way.
it has to be based on sounding out words or they’ll be stumped whenever they come to a word they can’t remember.
They’re NOT supposed to learn reading, until 3rd or 4th grade (once they’re through with sight words).
Of course, they’ll be terrible readers for life by being delayed that long, but considering that the vast majority of Americans, and the majority of people here, continue to dump their kids into government schools, expecting them to be taught properly, I guess that’s ok...
Read an editorial in The Washington Times in the early 90’s where California discovered their sight reading initiative left them with a HUGE functional illiteracy rate.
I think it was over 80% and it took the OVER 20 YEARS to figure out the problem.
My mom was a grade school reading teacher, and no way in hell would she teach sight. Lady was hard core phonics.
Home schooled my kids in reading via phonics, Kumon math, Hands on Algebra in 3rd grade (That was a hoot! They understood the concepts!), and US History.
That’s a parent’s job.
Bingo! You got it!
That is how I teach reading. Sounds like you are doing great.
Yes, you are correct. Did not think of that. One of the first words I could not sound out in the “Dick and Jane” book was LAUGH. So “gh” soundS like “F”...sometimes.
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