Sold a Story - podcast about kids inability to read these days

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Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong

There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this new podcast, host Emily...

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Or how we didn't get hooked on phonics.

Keep in mind most of the kids in the stories are children of middle and upper class white people.

 

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Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong

There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this new podcast, host Emily...

features.apmreports.org

Or how we didn't get hooked on phonics.

Keep in mind most of the kids in the stories are children of middle and upper class white people.

What's the recommended reading method?

 

[WIA20XX]

What's the recommended reading method?

Reading is multi-layered.

But it starts with phonics/decoding words. That's the foundation.

From there a lot of the more scholarly/elegant stuff happens. But as you can tell from at least one of the teachers - no one wants to teach phonics (and the kids don't want to learn the difference in a sounds from Cat, to What, to Large, to Lane...etc.

Much like you have to memorize multiplication tables before you can really do much with mathematics as a student.

Folks don't like doing the basics.