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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers (www.apmreports.org)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Seems like bullshit to me, but then I was brought up on the phonics system in the 70s. No clue what they're teaching now.

Reality is probably a mix of phonics, predicting, and context.

For example, this bit:

https://www.sciencealert.com/word-jumble-meme-first-last-letters-cambridge-typoglycaemia

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Sure, but you're still going to say the fourth word is "research" and not "study" or "reindeer".

There was an example in a story about kids learning to read poorly (I don't think this one) about how a kid reading about WW2 got that "Poland was invited by Germany" because they didn't know the word invaded, so they dramatically misunderstood the history.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is fascinating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Tihs is fsnaintacig.

FFTY

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I didn't even realize they were out of order until Cambridge.