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Originally Posted by BLDSoon
Almost none of these are words that a person that is learning how to read the English language for the first time would encounter. (Should encounter?) There are far simpler vowel-based words that can be used in the beginning and far simpler rules for the phonetic pronunciation that should be introduced before one ventures into the exercises you are giving examples of above.
The problem with the learning method quoted in the documentary (and favored by lots of teachers) is it tried to skip all the hard work of teaching the basics, all so that one can give the illusion of reading words that in reality, they cannot decipher. (which typically means they will stumble over similar words they have never seen before.)
Skipping the basics for instant gratification is probably what has an entire country's English-speaking children reading far below their expected reading level.
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Exactly. The examples given have no relation to early gradeschool reading, and to the process of gradually building skills. Those examples are like throwing a small child into the deep end of the pool to teach them to swim. No one does that, that I know of.
Well-said post.
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