ABC News’ Jay O’Brien reports on the challenge some students face learning to read in America’s schools, speaking with the parents, teachers and students working to improve how reading is taught.
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Phonics is the key❤
I was devastated to see how the school system was teaching our youth, phonics is very important. Phonics is how I learned how to read,
and I absolutely love books and reading to this very day.
In my opinion these “sight words” are not working because it’s a lot of guessing and memorizing but if you take that same word away and say ok spell it the child can’t and that’s a problem, because there are millions of words that your going to need to use phonics to pronounce out because you simply can’t memorize every word out there.
Also Hooked on phonics really works if you have someone or know someone struggling it’s a really great program, best of wishing to all struggling with this ❤
People try to change things just for the $$$ phonics works. Or is by design?
What’s unfortunate is watching the teacher in that segment have the students break the letters into the wrong parts. (T is a diphthong and would blend with w in the word “twirl”.) The problem is that we now have a generation of teachers who weren’t taught phonics and, as much as they try, they also need remedial phonics.
Just take away their smartphones and their video games and you will see improvement in their education.
Encourage kids to use reading apps on their tablets. Many even offer audiobooks where they can read along while they listen. Leave on the closed-captioning when they are watching videos, movies, or shows and they will learn how to read and pronounce new words automatically. Take them regularly to the local public library and sign them up for a free library card. Ask them about what books they are reading and if they like the story/book. Last but not least, read daily to your kids (I still read to my 10 yo, they are never too old). When they are able to read, let them read aloud to you while you cook dinner or ride in the car.
Signed, a librarian ❤
I think it’s parents responsibility too to help their kids to read not just school.
I’m so glad to hear many states and districts are reimplementing teaching reading with phonics. It made me so mad and still makes me mad that schools ever stopped using phonics in the first place.
I was in kindergarten, 1st grade, and second grade in a strong school district in Wisconsin from 1997-2000, and phonics is how we were taught to read, and it worked. I’m now a high school English teacher, and I remember back in 2016 during my 3rd year teaching, I was babysitting a friend from church’s children. Before putting them to bed, we read a book together, and her kindergartener pointed at a word she knew and read it, so proud of herself. 🥰 I told her that was so good, and she told me she knew it because it was one of her sight words. Since she did so well with that word, I asked her what some other words on the page were. When she said she didn’t know, I told her that was okay and to sound them out and that I would help her, and she really struggled to sound them out, which wasn’t a huge deal to me considering she was just in kindergarten, although I did find it a little odd. I talked to a friend, also an educator, about this afterwards, who told me they didn’t teach phonics anymore, and that that made sense that this little girl couldn’t sound out words because she had never been taught how to. I was shocked and pretty outraged. She told me that our high school students at the time also hadn’t been taught phonics in elementary school, and suddenly, my 11th graders’ difficulties with reading made a lot more sense. In my opinion, teaching a child to read with sight words and the other technique mentioned in this video where children use pictures to guess words will only get them so far. It’s giving them tools for early elementary school, not tools for life-long reading. I believe phonics provides children with the tools to sound out most words they’ll encounter, thus setting them up better for reading for life. It really makes me think of the popular saying- “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish, feed him for a lifetime.” Sight words and guessing words is like giving them a fish that will feed them for a day. Phonics is teaching them how to fish, how to read, which will benefit them for their lives.
Go back to the old ways. The old ways BUILT this country. Smh
They can’t do basic math either
Are the children not learning phonics in schools? I remember having a phonics book/phonics class. What the hell is picture power? Not every word will have a relatable picture, at least ones that children can understand. There is also a lot to be said about reading to children.
Anyone remember the distar approach to teaching how to read. I do. I learned basic phonics in kindergarten, then moved schools the following summer. The new school taught distar approach, which is a memorization technique. I as a 6 year old was yelled at by my teacher for trying to sound out the unknown word. I taught my daughter phonics when I realized she was struggling in reading. The only issue was they were more focused on retention of what is read over the ability to read. It's sad.
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Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24, verse 3.
“And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.”
Gospel of Luke, chapter 21, verse 8 to 11.
“All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.”
Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24, verse 8 to 10.
“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
Gospel of Luke, chapter 21, verse 25 to 28.
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Gospel of John, chapter 3, verse 16 to 18.
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First Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 3 to 6.
“Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.”
Acts, chapter 8, verse 22.
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Gospel of John, chapter 3, verse 3.
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Gospel of Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17.
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Hosea, chapter 6, verse 2.
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Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 8.
“knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 3 to 4.
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First Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 3.
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First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 16 to 17.
“in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
First Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 52.
“I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.”
Gospel of Luke, chapter 17, verse 34 to 36.
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Educational system messed up when they stopped teaching phonetically
um…ohio's abbreviation isn't KY
A big piece that’s missing from these stories is that some kids are not ready to read until they are older. No amount of interventions is going to help them until their brains are ready. It’s too bad different timelines just can’t be accommodated by the school system.
What happens when they leave school and go home ????
Who spends time with them, reading, spelling, and trying to comprehend what they're reading.
Take away phonics the kids suffer
well this makes a lot of my experiences as a college professor at a community college make waaaaay more sense. I knew a lot of the issues we saw in our remedial classes stemmed from environmental reasons (meaning unsupportive parents, for whatever their reason might be, some intentional, most being busy due to working 3 jobs and/or having a lingering disdain of education from their own school memories) and we knew that there were a few under performing schools in our area because of budget issues and thus students being unable to access the help they needed to succeed. We also knew that at that time the no child left behind act was shoving unprepared students out the door and into our halls which happily accepted them because they were just another US Department of Education loan paycheck and it didn't matter to the administration that these kids were blowing their one shot at an education that they weren't interested in to begin with but had come because they were told that was what was next (no conversation about trade schools, no conversation about gap years, little assistance other than some remedial classes and an overworked tutoring center). But i never thought that the schools had stopped doing the phonics lessons that were used when i was in school in the 80s. Seeing these kids having to come up with the word Cookie while looking at a picture suddenly makes so much of my experiences teaching make even more sense. We really have failed these kids.
Japan reading just fine.
So dumb to teach a school age child how to read heavily dependent on pictures in the book. There isn't pictures on everything you read in the real world. Pictures only work for toddlers not school age children. And how did that 9th grader make it to highschool without learning how to read? Wow.
The problem is that schools no longer teach phonics, which is the basics.