[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Learning Braille
- From: "Gail The U. S. Male" <gail1959@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:43:57 -0700
I'm dating myself, but I learned to read before that stupid whole word
reading idea came out. that was the worst piece of garbage perpetrated on
the public in a long time. Then they wonder why Johnny can't read! I'm
stopping here, since I don't want to write a novel on things I have against
the education establishment. They're "dumbing down" our kids, making it
perfectly fine to perform at the lowest levels, since we wouldn't want to
damage Susie's poor little psyche by letting her take the consequences of
her actions and failing, and Poor Susie might feel badly if she didn't do at
least as well as the other kids on her tests, so let's lower the level we
accept as passing on all tests, so she won't feel bad.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Cindy
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 3:36 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Learning braille
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
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