Posted on 10/27/2018 7:17:20 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Our children aren’t being taught to read in ways that line up with what scientists have discovered about how people actually learn.
It’s a problem that has been hiding in plain sight for decades. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, more than six in 10 fourth graders aren’t proficient readers. It has been this way since testing began. A third of kids can’t read at a basic level.
How do we know that a big part of the problem is how children are being taught? Because reading researchers have done studies in classrooms and clinics, and they’ve shown over and over that virtually all kids can learn to read — if they’re taught with approaches that use what scientists have discovered about how the brain does the work of reading. But many teachers don’t know this science.
What have scientists figured out? First of all, while learning to talk is a natural process that occurs when children are surrounded by spoken language, learning to read is not. To become readers, kids need to learn how the words they know how to say connect to print on the page. They need explicit, systematic phonics instruction. There are hundreds of studies that back this up.
But talk to teachers and many will tell you they learned something different about how children learn to read in their teacher preparation programs. Jennifer Rigney-Carroll, who completed a master’s degree in special education in 2016, told me she was taught that children “read naturally if they have access to books.” Jessica Root, an intervention specialist in Ohio, said she learned “you want to get” children “excited about what they’re reading, find books that they’re interested in, and just read, read, read.” Kathy Bast, an elementary school principal in Pennsylvania, learned the same thing.
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My mother taught me to read before I entered kindergarten. Then publik skrewl proceeded to screw up my spelling by shoving phonetics down my throat.
Grades K-2 were a nightmare.
“Sight reading is best, IMO.”
Maybe in music, but I don’t see how you can go wrong with phonics. “Correct and relearn”? I never had to do that and I always was fastest reader in my classes, with best comprehension test results.
I do understand that how people learn is unique to individuals. My husband is dyslexic, but has a PhD in Physics, so he had to take a different — and difficult — path to comprehending what he read.
Common Core Math, meet Common Core Reading.
Maybe it have a corellary - ephonics.
Post of the day. Absolutely correct.
I’ve been thinking the same thing. Really low end people over there.
But sight is a good adjunct.
Rough, through, bought, though.
Head, bed.
Knead, feed.
Etc.
So they cruise through their courses without learning squat, while countless academics ponder a question whose answer has been clear for decades.
I understand, given what you said, your devotion to phonics. However, phonics is a made up term derived from the word phonetics. The whole concept of sounding out words has been around for a long, long time, but it doesn't always provide the correct spelling.
What DOES work is to read 'higher level literature'. Even if you don't understand what the words MEAN yet, your exposure to them gives you the correct spelling. Sooner or later, the student will 'hear' the words used and understand their meaning via the context. That info is stored in the brain with the already correct spelling.
That is how to learn how to spell words correctly.
All other methods are Fony.
I taught all my children to read before kindergarten using Hooked on Phonics. Since they were already reading, it was harder for any “credentialed” teacher to screw them up.
Still wound up home-schooling them eventually.
According to the Phonics concept, how does one spell Phonics ?
Correct and relearn it? What does that mean?
I learned to read in the 1960s using phonics i.e. every letter has one or two sounds. I taught my children this way. No one had to correct or relearn anything. What are you talking about? Not being flip ...
And no one dares to call it EDUCATION MALPRACTICE, which is what it clearly is.
How do orphans learn to read ?
They need a combination, IMO.
Ephonics.... would that B4REALZ ?
Seriously?
After 30 yrs. of being out of the business, I decided to try substitute teaching to supplement my retirement. Folks, it’s worse than you think out there. Kids are told to stay away from rote memorization. Instead of just knowing the answer to addition and subtraction they have to make some grid that I don’t even understand. Instead of teaching competition and grade achievement they are told to give “affirmative” notes to each other. It’s no wonder we have a generation of snowflakes. If they disrupt the classroom they go down to a special office and “discuss” their oppositional defiance syndrome.
So, you are saying that before the new wave concept of PHONICS was invented that people could not read nor write accurately ?
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