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More Phonics Articles(Phonics & Otherwise)
Millions of adults in the United States are functionally illiterate (they are not capable of fluently reading EVERY word on EVERY page)
Millions of adults in the
United States are functionally illiterate (they are not capable of
Phonemic Awareness - Helping a Child Grow in Early Reading Skills According to the National Reading Panel, Phonemic Awareness is the basis for a child’s literacy development and is one of the best indicators of whether a child will be a successful reader in the early elementary grades. Phonemic awareness can be developed by first, providing a language-rich preschool environment and second, through explicit and systematic phonemic instruction which builds upon a child’s ability to grow in phonemic awareness (the ability to manipulate the spoken word).
A Nation at Risk - The Official Report
Our Nation is at risk. Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce,
industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by
competitors throughout the world. This report is concerned with only one of
the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the
American people that while we can take justifiable pride in what our schools
and colleges have historically accomplished and contributed to the United
States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that
threatens our very future as a Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a
generation ago has begun to occur--others are matching and surpassing our
educational attainments. Understanding the Debate Over How Best to Teach Children to Read What is it about teaching reading that arouses such passions in Americans? Shall we have phonics or whole language or both? Why this debate should be so vehement in the political arena is not immediately obvious. Nor is it obvious why the issue is so important that George W. Bush, for example, ran television ads prominently featuring phonics, as though it were a topic as central to the presidency as social security, taxation, trade with China or nuclear weapons. One answer is simply that Americans are anxious about the primary skill necessary for their children's success. This anxiety requires a dispassionate answer to the critical question: How can schools best teach reading?
Poor Reading-Instruction Methods Keep Many Students Illiterate
Figures from the "1992
U.S. Adult Literacy Survey" and the "1998 UNESCO World Education Report"
show that the United States, like Haiti, is among the seven out of 39
Western Hemisphere nations entering the third millennium with a literacy
rate below 80 percent. Why do we face this elementary problem? A major
reason may be so-called whole-language, or WL, reading instruction, widely
used in public schools since the early 1980s. WL teaches children to
memorize and guess at words, using pictures and other clues, instead of
using phonics skills to sound them out.
How to Teach Your Child or Student Proper Directional Tracking We read and write English from left-to-right. This left-to-right horizontal arrangement of print is an essential component of the written English language. Proper directional tracking is looking at and processing all the letters in order from left-to-right. Proper directional tracking is essential for reading success.
Helping Children with Learning Disabilities Understand What They ReadA student struggling to understand what he reads often misinterprets assignments and fails to grasp concepts. This is very frustrating for a student who is otherwise capable of interpreting the information.
Homeschooler, 7, wins
writing contest using baseball theme
Home-schooling
rise, as parents become teachers
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
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