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by BaldSpot on October 10th, 2008
The whole word method is a failed experiment that has contributed to a very high rate of illiteracy in today's students. Fifty years ago, we did not have special reading programs, teacher assistants, peer tutoring, etc. because they taught reading using the phonetics method, a method that has been used successfully for hundreds of years! All the kids in my day could read, and we all read very well. Our literacy rate and our comprehension rate was very high. We learned to "sound out" words. Children who learn using the whole word method do not learn the basics of word construction and how to sound out new words. They have to be told what a word is.
by DownOnMyLuck on March 18th, 2007
I took Peer Tutoring at school and you shouldn't use phonetics unless absolutely necessary. If they do, they are reading for context, not meaning and won't understand the word properly.
by Crown_P on January 15th, 2011
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