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Originally Posted by AChimp
One of the problems with poor reading levels is the techniques used to teach reading to young kids. Like I said before, I was among one of the first groups to go through the "new system," but my Grade 1 teacher was an old woman who'd been teaching for 40 years.
We all learned how to read phonetically, as I'm sure most of the older Mockers here did. You know, sounding words out and stuff.
Now they teach it more like memorization. "C, A, T is cat. Remember it." I was taught the difference between a hard C and a soft C, "at" is pronouced "aaht," etc.
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That's frightening. They did that for a while in the USA (Dr. Seuss's first few books were commissioned for use with the word memorization method) and it made hundreds of kids dyslexic because they got to be like 10 years old and never learned how letters sounded.