[etni] proper teaching Re: etni Digest V3 #163

"...address it. We are quick to 
tell a perfectly intelligent student she has to 
get a psychologist note that 
she has a spelling problem. This is nonsense. 
Limor and Shlomo and Romi and 
Gal cannot read or write because they were never 
taught properly. Maybe we 
should go back to teaching phonics in elementary 
school.

A student who reaches junior high school should 
be able to read and write 
basic words.

Daniel"


Amen!  I agree.  

It's not only in English that they haven't been taught well.  Their Hebrew is 
atrocious.  All this wishy washy feel good teaching for fluency rather than 
accuracy has damaged their linguistic skills.  The big problem is that it has 
been going on so long, the younger generation of teachers have no idea what 
we're talking about.




Batya

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