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Learn to read using time proven Phonetic methods. Learn to TEACH others to read. In Puritan New England in the 1500's there was a law that required the master of a home to teach his children and servants to read under penalty of fines. There were 'reading police' that went house to house and enforced the law. Abraham Lincoln's mother taught her children to read while living in the wilds of Illinois in a primitive log cabin. In 1851 Americans were one of the most literate populations on earth. This was in a culture that relied primarily on one room school houses and the McGuffey's Eclectic Readers for reading instruction. Many individuals did not receive much more than an elementary education. Using the McGuffey's readers And the back half of a book titled Why Johnny Can't Read and what you can do about it. I have found that by adding 10 phonetic rules and a series of instructional drills to the contents and methods included in the books mentioned above it is quite easy to teach children and adults to read. The teaching techniques follow the concepts of TLC and generate a very high success rate. By the way... The McGuffey's readers would not be allowed in public school today simply due to the repeated references to God. See the links at the bottom of the page for more information on McGuffeys and Why Johnny Can't Read. Some interesting facts about English and Phonics How many words are there in our language? The statistics of English are astonishing. Of all the world's languages (which now number some 2,700), it is arguably the richest in vocabulary. The compendious Oxford English Dictionary lists about 500,000 words; and a further half-million technical and scientific terms remain uncatalogued. According to traditional estimates, neighboring German has a vocabulary of about 185,000 and French fewer than 100,000, including such Franglais as le snacque-barre and le hit-parade. Phonics... the numbers. There are 26 letters in the English alphabet There are 44 sounds in the English Language While there are many phonetic rules knowing 10 of the basic phonetic rules covers about 70% to 80% of the nearly one million words in the language. Whole Word vs. Intensive Phonics Using Dick and Jane, or a similar whole word method of language instruction, children memorize words with out learning about the connection between the letters they are spelled with and the sounds those letters represent. When children start school they have a speaking and listening vocabulary in excess of 10,000 words. In school they are taught to memorize between 200 and 500 words a year from first to fifth grade. This means they have acquired a reading vocabulary of between 1000 and 2500 words. One half year spent in first grade teaching an intensive phonics program gives the child access to 3/4 of the one million words of the language. Programs that mix a little phonics with whole word are no wheres nearly as effective as the Intensive Phonics approach. Examine the links below for much more useful information McGuffey's readers Amazon has a beautiful boxed edition of the 7 book McGuffey's set Rudolph Flesch why Johnny Can't Read An article on Phonics and Rudolf Flesch's book "Why Johnny Can't Read" Another site speaking of Rudolf Flesch and American Education First 85 pages on line of Why Johnny Can't Read Phonics 44 Phonetic sounds Extensive Phonetic and Spelling Rules A very comprehensive Phonics site including free worksheets Phonics vs Whole word video "The Crime of the Century" Don Potter net - A Course in Phonics for the First Three Grades Starfall.com - website of free phonics games, worksheets, and much more |
