Learning to Read English

Sight Words, Dolch Words, Whole Word, etc. don't work. Find out why we have 50,000,000 functional illiterates. A phonetic language such as English needs to be learned phonetically. (Bruce Deitrick Price/Improve-Education.org)

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Education

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• dyslexia
• sight
• word
• dolch
• illiteracy
• dumbing
• down
• reading
• teaching
• goodman
• frank
• smith
• phonetic
• alphabetic

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

For more historical background on this nuttiness, Google my "The Biggest Crime in American History."

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

To StopTheBob: please also see "How Dolch Words Cause Illiteracy and Dyslexia."

[jgbonifaz]

An excellent idea to teach students to read English.

[shari21948]

Thank you for posting this video. I am the product of sight reading and until I was 28 I could not read a book. I am 62, taught myself phonics, reentered college and now am a firm beliver that children need to learn how to use phonics. I am an Honor Student and am advocating Phonics.

[StopTheBob]

Sight Words (sometimes called the Dolch Word List) are some of the most frequently used words in the English language. Even though they number only about 200, Sight Words comprise approximately 50 to 70 percent of any given general, non-technical text. Therefore, teaching Sight Words as early as possible is considered a crucial part of elementary education.

[StopTheBob]

In many schools students are expected to be able to read simple material by the end of the second grade. One of the most important goals in teaching young students to read is making sure they are completely proficient with Sight Words.

[StopTheBob]

Reading is one of the most critical skills taught at school. It is virtually impossible for a person to live a productive life in our society without being functionally literate. Children with reading difficulties will undoubtedly have trouble mastering nearly all school subjects even if they are motivated to study. Conversely, children who learn to read in the early grades acquire one of the most basic skills needed to continue their education and be fully-functional as adults.

[exceedingreading]

Thanks again for an incredible video. I wish the information would reach more parents with children beginning school: the parents who trust that their child(ren)will automatically learn to read in school. Sadly for me and many parents, this is not the case. Through my own efforts and expense, my child has learned to read through explicit, systematic phonics. The way it should have been done from the beginning.