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1: English and
Education
2: In Praise Of Stark
PREEMPTIVE READING™
Lucidity TEACH YOUR CHILD EARLY
3: Latin Lives On +
Greek Lives On
4: An Inquiry Into Start before the schools can mess up your kid.
Modifier Noun Around the age of three, four or five is fine.
Proliferation Take your time. Have fun.
5: Noun Overuse
Phenomenon Article These are the stages that most people
6: Let's Get Serious go through to learn to read English:
About Education
7: A Smashing Victory 1) MEMORIZE THE ALPHABET. Blocks and toys that display the letters are
good, as are posters for the wall. You can find many good videos about the
8: A Metalinguistic
Inquiry Into F
Alphabet Song and the letters on YouTube (for example, see my “AZ
CAPITALS”). Use all the tricks to make sure your child can say the alphabet
9: Philosophy Weeps quickly and, in time, can identify any letter you point to. Start with capitals.
(Learning to print or write the letters is a big plus.)
10: MAX Your Creativity
11: What's All This Talk
About Digital? 2) ENJOY THE LANGUAGE. Encourage children to memorize nursery rhymes,
knockknock jokes, songs, and short poems. Chant them and sing them. Stress
12: "MAP" ALERT the rhymes or word play. Explain the main words. Act out the stories. Use only
fun, popular material. For example, “Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer” is clever
13: Precision Worth
Preserving
writing, a great song, and a great story.
14: THEORYLAND
3) READ TOGETHER. Have the child sit beside you so you are both looking at
15: "1984"The Cover the same thing. As you read, touch the words now and then. Indicate that English
Up moves left to right, words have syllables, and sentences start with capitals, end
16: The Plight of Poetry with periods. Don’t expect a child to retain much of that initially. The main thing
is to enjoy the story and share literary experiences.
17: Understanding
Robots
4) LEARN THE SOUNDS. The whole point of phonetic language is that a
18: Tao Te Ching
printed symbol (e.g., b) stands for a spoken sound (buh). This is one of the
(followed by "Notes on
greatest inventions in human history.
the Spiritual Life")
19: Form, Function, Explain to the child that many people have two namesa real name such as
Foolishness Robert and a more commonly used nickname such as Bob. Similarly, we know
letters by what might be called their nicknames, A, B, C, which are short and
20: The Quizz (or: Facts
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Are Fun!) easy to say.
21: A Tribute to Rudolf But the real names are the spoken sounds, which take longer to say. These are
Flesch precisely what the child now needs to learn. This process is called sounding out:
22: On Bullsh*t & the child sees b and says buh, d and says deh, t and says tuh. Start with the
Sophistry more common consonants. As to how you should pronounce the consonants, try
this. Say any small word, for example, "bet." Drop the "et." Say what's leftthat's
23: The Creativity the bsound! Point is, the pronunciations are hard to show in print; but we know
Question how to say the letters; and so do the kids.
24: Birds Like Us
Do not get sidetracked by details. It’s the concept (printed symbols = sounds) that
25: Phooey on John the child needs to learn, not the details. Knowing this concept inoculates
Dewey children against the worst ravages of Whole Word.
26: How To Teach
History, Etc.
27: Ivan Pavlov 5) REALIZE THERE ARE TWO ALPHABETS. Historically, when people had
Education Goes To the only sticks and chisels, it was easier to draw letters with straight lines; capital A
Dogs consisted of three straight lines. All letters were capital letters. Later, when
28: Tips for Helping people developed more delicate pens and inks, they could write faster with
Your Child Do Better in cursive (“running”) letters which included a set of lowercase letters. (All this
School became what we now call handwriting.) Reading lowercase letters is easier; so
now capitals are mainly used to indicate the start of a sentence, to show respect
29: The Rules Of Poetry as in the names of people and cities, and for emphasis. Experts agree that writing
30: The War Against helps reading. (Montessori taught writing first.) Cursive especially helps reading.
Reading Encourage your child to practice with family names.
31: Teacher Liberation
Front 6) SOUND OUT SYLLABLES AND THEN WORDS. Children learn the
sounds of the letters, then pairs of letters (e.g., ba) and little by little start using
32: Teaching Science
this knowledge on the actual words in a story.
Science Is Fun
33: How To Help A Non Many experts say a large percentage of children will eventually figure out how
Reader To Read English works, and learn to read virtually on their own, often without knowing
how they did it or what the socalled rules are. Remember that children, even at
34: The Con in
age of five, already have a huge vocabulary in their heads, words they use or
Constructivism
recognize. Probably at least 5000 words. What happens in practice is that the
35: Most Eminent child sounds out a syllable or two, and the mind clicks: “Oh, television!”
Authority In Reading
Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld One team of experts concluded: “It is absurdly easy to teach a child to read with
the proper method. Most of the children in America could be taught in a few
36: The Assault on Math
weeks or months at the age of five. We shall tell you about various schools, now
37: Whole Word versus functioning, where a problem reader is virtually unheard of." (Terman and
Phonics Walcutt in “Reading: chaos and cure,” 1958).
38: Saving Public
Many things commonly said about English are actually propaganda created by
Schools
the antiphonics crowd. These people like to dwell on the inconsistencies of
39: How To Teach English pronunciation. But your child is not a foreigner learning English as a new
Physics, Etc. language; a foreigner doesn’t know one word of English and must deal with those
inconsistencies. Most children learn to read without realizing there are any
40: Sight Words
inconsistencies. (I did; probably you did. I graduated from college in English
Dolch Words The Big
Literature and still don't know any phonics rules.) Children in first grade are said
Stupid
to know more than 10,000 words. Everything that could conceivably be in their
41: Educators, O. J. school material would already be in their heads, so it’s really a matter of
Simpson, and Guilt recognizing old acquaintances.
42: Reading Resources This article is, in effect, an informal phonics course. If you think your child will
43: American Basic benefit from a formal phonics course, please see “42: Reading Resources” for a
Curriculum list of such courses. Most of them say that a short lesson a day for four months
does the job. Sometimes, a slower reader or someone taught sightwords for a
44: The Myth of
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Automaticity few years is the child who most needs a formal course.
45: The Crusade Against
Knowledge & Memory
46: American Public 7) HAVE FUN. Find reading material that ties in with the child’s hobbies and
Schools Designed To Fail interests. Avoid literary pretension. It’s better if a child loves to read something,
even comic books, than not to like reading anything. In reading, the vital thing is
47: Teach One Fact Each practice, practice and practice.
Day
48: You Still Teach Terman and Walcutt suggested it might help some children if they read a book
Sight Words??!! out loud, even two or three times. Pronouncing the words aloud consolidates the
leap from printed symbols to spoken sounds. That’s what reading is, seeing the
49: How Do We Learn & noisy sounds in silent symbols. Whole Word blocks this simple connection, and
Teach is thus a literacykiller.
50: Leading Boys to
Reading
FINAL WARNING. Phonics is the only way to go but some schools continue to
51: Learning Styles: use sightwords, Dolch words, etc. If a school sends home a list of sightwords to
How Educators Divide memorize, that’s a big danger signal. If a school talks about picture clues,
Kids guessing or reading from context, ditto. Consider a formal phonics course. Note:
analytic phonics and intrinsic phonics are deceptive gimmicks. Synthetic
52: The Conspiracy
phonicswith no mention of sightwordsis optimal.
Chronicles
53: Education
Establishment Hates
Math
54: Preemptive Reading BACKGROUND OF ARTICLE: Rudolf Flesch explained why Whole Word does not work in
his famous 1955 book. Terman and Walcutt, mentioned above, made similar points in their
55: Letters From 1958 book. A striking feature is that all three experts were optimistic that the schools would
Teachers / oldest first turn away from Whole Word and embrace phonics. In fact, the Education Establishment
doubled down on all their bad ideas, and pretty well vanquished these three troublemakers.
56: Top 10 Worst Ideas
Alas.
In Education
57: Cooperative The United States is now said to have 50 million functional illiterates. Most of this destruction
Learning can be attributed to Whole Word. There are a number of articles on this site explaining why
Whole Word is obviously a hoax. The human brain simply can’t absorb more than a few
58: How To Teach A thousand graphic designs; and even that number requires many years of hard work. During
Poem that time the child would not be literate and all of the child’s education would suffer.
59: Critical ThinkingIf But the main problem is that English is so vastalmost 1,000,000 wordsand college students
Only need at least 100,000 of those words. It's obvious that Whole Word has to be a deadend. Once
you start to push this thing into the schools, you’re guilty of a con and a crime.
60: Smart Content
Makes Kids Smarter Reading is the central skill; and the thing we must fix first. I realized that the most helpful
thing I could do was to provide a very short article that would tell parents how they can take
61: Early Literacy Pack
the job away from the schools and do it themselves. Even if the steps above are followed
ELP
lightly and partially, the child is probably safe. The crucial thing is grasping that letters =
62: Prior Knowledge sounds.
Strange New Religion
Keep in mind that in the early days of Whole Word, the alphabet wasn’t taught; sounds
63: PROJECTBASED weren’t mentioned. Basically, the schools lied to the children about what a word is. The
LEARNING official doctrine was that a word is a graphic design. The child had to learn the graphic
design without any reference to its builtin sounds. It’s totally bizarre. But the Education
64: Head Start how Establishment got away with it, and still pushes this most destructive of hoaxes.
would it be done right??
NOTE: ADULTS WHO NEVER LEARNED TO READ PROPERLY
COMMENTS / newest CAN FOLLOW THE SAME STEPS OUTLINED ABOVE. THE MAIN THING FOR
first ADULTS IS TO RESOLVE NEVER TO GUESS AGAIN OR TO FIGURE THINGS OUT
FROM PICTURES OR CONTEXT. THOSE TENDENCIES ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF THE
New American DISEASE, NOT THE CURE.
CurriculumFive Point
Reform Plan
A Bill of Rights for
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL, RAISING A READER, AND SIMILAR
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READING IS FUNDAMENTAL, RAISING A READER, AND SIMILAR
Students 2017
If you are part of a group that gives books to poor families, please pass along a
The Education Enigma
link to this article. Then the adults, if they can read at all, will be able to initiate
READING THEORY the literacy process, and the children can start to read the books.
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BLOG RELATED ARTICLES ON THIS SITE ARE:
33: How To Help A NonReader To Read
40: Sight Words, Dolch WordsThe Big Stupid
42: Reading Resources
44: The Myth of Automaticity
(Most related) 61: Early Literacy Pack / ELP
THIS ARTICLE (#54) WAS TURNED INTO A VIDEO.
Says same things but quicker
"54: Preemptive Reading"
is also the basis for a PDF booklet titled
"An Introduction to Phonics"
See next section.
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IMPROVEEDUCATION.ORG © BRUCE DEITRICK PRICE 2011
The biggest problem in education continues to be millions of struggling readers.
Many public schools refuse to teach this essential skill correctly.
If everyone understood what reading is
and the steps that children go through to learn to read English,
half of our education problems would disappear.
On this site, see “42: Reading Resources” for a review of the whole subject.
See “54: Preemptive Reading” for suggestions on teaching young children to read.
On another site, I created some short PDF booklets intended for parents, teachers, and community leaders.
"A Quick Look at How SightWords Harm Children" (free)
“An Introduction to Phonics” ($2.50)
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!931. Education Establishment introduces a reading
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