And to read. I wsa a high school English teacher at one point in my life, and my students were part of that generation that learned to read via whole word recognition. They weren't able to work out new words that they came across. I started spending a class hour a week having them read the literature we were reading aloud and having them work out the words phonically. Cindy I think it goes back to > teaching whole word > recognition that was so popular for sighted students > years ago until it was > discovered that phonics were extremely important in > being able to spell. > ----- Original Messag __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.