No. I learned phonics because my two grandmothers were teachers and they taught me before I sent to school. Our 1st grade teacher taught phonics, but the next year they "improved" things with "word recognition" till the reader ran into a word they didn't recognize and didn't have the ability to deal with (as they would have with phonics)…
No. I learned phonics because my two grandmothers were teachers and they taught me before I sent to school. Our 1st grade teacher taught phonics, but the next year they "improved" things with "word recognition" till the reader ran into a word they didn't recognize and didn't have the ability to deal with (as they would have with phonics). This was the first step to functional illiteracy. My brother and sister both got this and neither liked reading as a result. This was followed by "new" math that created math illiteracy. Then they came up with "whole language". Finally when that was such an abject failure that the California Legislature zeroed out the budget line for the perfesserator of edumacation who invented it, thereby getting her ass out of San Bernardino State University (i.e., Cow College U), they brought back phonics some 20 years ago, then quickly added "teach to the test" for No Child Left Uneducated to keep their perfect record of creating a nation of intellectual morons. If all the Ed.Ds of the past 70 years had never existed, American education would still work.
No. I learned phonics because my two grandmothers were teachers and they taught me before I sent to school. Our 1st grade teacher taught phonics, but the next year they "improved" things with "word recognition" till the reader ran into a word they didn't recognize and didn't have the ability to deal with (as they would have with phonics). This was the first step to functional illiteracy. My brother and sister both got this and neither liked reading as a result. This was followed by "new" math that created math illiteracy. Then they came up with "whole language". Finally when that was such an abject failure that the California Legislature zeroed out the budget line for the perfesserator of edumacation who invented it, thereby getting her ass out of San Bernardino State University (i.e., Cow College U), they brought back phonics some 20 years ago, then quickly added "teach to the test" for No Child Left Uneducated to keep their perfect record of creating a nation of intellectual morons. If all the Ed.Ds of the past 70 years had never existed, American education would still work.