Episode 76: Dyslexia is a Fancy Word for Sabotage (Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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- Bruce Deitrick Price
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- Wed 14 Dec 2022
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Episode 76: Dyslexia is a Fancy Word for Sabotage (Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Here's the bottom line: phonics is essential, because it’s a mnemonic device for dealing with a huge language like English.
If you don't have the phonics sounds to remind you how to pronounce the words, you will struggle and stall.
College students need more than 100,000 words. A computer might master that many sight-words but if we are talking about your kid, you can forget it.
America had universal literacy until 1931 when the Education Establishment insisted that we drop phonics and use sight-words. Now we have universal barely-literate.
If you agree that we should dumb down the American population, you will surely love sight-words.
Remember that the basic premise was that you first teach children to read and then they can teach themselves. That's the next step which our schools have cleverly, cunningly, criminally made impossible.
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Video exposes dyslexia hysteria: The Strange Truth About Dyslexia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFLLnRWROQ
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