I remember a couple years ago I went over to my sister's house with my father because we were babysitting her kid. He got out his homework and at one point he a

I remember a couple years ago I went over to my sister's house with my father because we were babysitting her kid. He got out his homework and at one point he asked us for help with his English and reading. I think he was around 10 years old at the time. But yeah, the way he was reading was so foreign and alien to me and my father. He was doing exactly what is talked about in this article. He was looking at words and then just saying what he thought they were and most of the time he was wrong. We tried to figure out why he was saying the words he was saying when he was looking at the words he was looking at and we tried to do the whole sounding out the word thing and he had no idea what we were talking about. His mom is a teacher and they aren't in poverty... This is just how they were teaching things for a while I guess? I don't know why we strayed away from doing the whole sounding out the word and learning the structure of English words stuff... I don't know if I learned this from school or my dad at home but learning about Latin roots of English words or just roots in general for the different parts of words along with just general phonetic sounding out just seemed like the right way to literacy. I mean I can't spell worth a damn but who cares about spelling when like everything that we type on fixes my mistakes or at least underlines my mistakes for me and then I could pick the correct spelling. But also my inability to know how to spell has nothing to do with the way it was taught how to read because all of my peers did way better than me in spelling, I just can't spell, but I was able to read better than most of them and also comprehend words at a higher grade level than most of them, I guess it's a trade off between some sort of different type of memorization ability, the ability to Intuit as opposed to the ability to remember... I dunno. But yeah... I guess this is like common core reading that I dodged by graduating high school when I did. Seems like as soon as I got out of school all of this weird stuff started just getting pushed into the normal curriculum.