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Anecdata: As long as I knew her, my ex had the difficulties described in the article. She blamed how she was taught to read in school -- specifically not having
by jdm2212 7y ago
Anecdata: As long as I knew her, my ex had the difficulties described in the article. She blamed how she was taught to read in school -- specifically not having been taught phonics. I figured that was nonsense, and blamed a peculiar-to-her learning disability.
At some point I read Steven Pinker's "The Language Instinct" (which is 20+ years old at this point!), which describes all the research on learning to read... and which pretty conclusively proved to me that my ex was right. For at least some subset of kids, not learning phonics leads to a lifelong reading issues.
- felipemnoa 7y ago>>and which pretty conclusively proved to me that my ex was right I wouldn't make a conclusion on just one data point.
- jdm2212 7y agoI ultimately agreed with her based on reading about the research, which is at this point 30+ years old -- and popularized 20+ years ago.
- AdieuToLogic 7y agoWhile phonics certainly are important to reading comprehension, IMHO a teaching technique which the article does not address is described in: Reasons to Teach Word Stems and Roots[0] 0 - https://mrsrenz.com/reasons-to-teach-word-stems-and-roots/ https://mrsrenz.com/reasons-to-teach-word-stems-and-roots/
- gamedori 7y agoThat is a useful system for middle readers with limited volcabulary to jump into high school / professional reading, but not so good for very early readers. Note how all the grecoroman stems are defined in terms of germanic words, which are phonetic. The article is concerned with students who find words like "rabbit" challenging, not with students figuring out "neologism".
- AdieuToLogic 7y agoPoint taken. Perhaps this comment[0] I posted earlier more directly addresses the article's intent in how to help teach reading skills. 0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791015