Whole Language Harms Children - Maybe Most Children. We Must Now Pivot to Science-Based Reading Education. Part 2.
This is episode 2 of 6 of Emily Hanford's "Sold a Story". I want to encourage everyone to understand that the dumbing down of the western world is not accidental.
Emily Hanford won’t go there, but just like common core has destroyed a generation’s ability to do math, and environmental toxins have reduced their IQs, Whole Language approach to teaching reading has killed many young readers’ abilities to easily learn to decode new words. Unlike Chinese, English is a phonetic language, and to learn to think independently and creatively, one must have an unencumbered approach to decode new words.
Give this episode a listen. It’s worth your time because you are going to be part of the solution.
“Sixty years ago, Marie Clay developed a way to teach reading she said would help kids who were falling behind. They’d catch up and never need help again. Today, her program remains popular and her theory about how people read is at the root of a lot of reading instruction in schools. But Marie Clay was wrong.”
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I already listened to part 2 after listening to part 1 at your suggestion yesterday.
I hate the way some people think the act of learning can be reversed engineered, especially when they get it so wrong like Marie Clay did. They are doing the same thing in math, with disastrous results.
So, I am now listening to part 3 because I just can't stop, and I am practically pulling my hair out when I hear that teachers did not even look at the research for themselves, and that they resisted President Bush's push for phonics-based instruction merely based on their opinion of the man himself.
Bush Derangement Syndrome.