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nrrf.org/reading-right Phonics, the most effective way to teach how to read

According to the Report of the National Reading Panel a truly effective reading program includes systematic, direct instruction in these FIVE ELEMENTS:

PHONEMIC AWARENESS The knowledge and ability to recognize that words are made up of a combination of individual speech sounds.

PHONICS A body of knowledge consisting of 26 letters used to symbolize 44 English speech sounds. There are about 70 most common spellings for these speech sounds.

VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT Adding to the number of words used and understood by the student.

FLUENCY The ability to read text accurately and smoothly.

COMPREHENSION The ability to understand what we can read and talk about.

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Phonics Primer

You can use this Phonics Primer developed by The National Right to Read Foundation to begin teaching a child or adult to read today. This primer lists the 44 sounds in the English language and then gives steps for teaching those 44 sounds and their most common spelling patterns. In addition to learning sounds and spellings, each day the student must read lists of phonetically related words and spell these words from dictation. Phonics instruction must be reinforced by having the student read decodable text.

Review of Alpha-Phonics by Blumenfeld

Alpha-Phonics now available on Kindle!! It is the same and is every bit as simple and effective as the book which first came out in 1983. The Kindle version has been carefully designed to work as easily for the Kindle viewer as it has proven to be for the print version user for so long.

Alpha-Phonics. Probably the simplest, most effective systematic, intensive phonics reading instruction program available today. HERE’S WHY IT WORKS SO WELL: IT IS SIMPLE!!There are only 44 phonograms (sounds) the child needs to learn. There are only 44 sounds needed for the entire English language. Reading is simple to teach because all you have to do is teach the student to SOUND OUT the words they are trying to read. At first they sound the words out LOUD then later they do it in their head silently. That is ALL there is to teaching reading. Student begins with short vowels putting simplest words together (Like a plus m = am or a plus s = as; etc) and progresses to the more advanced words. With Alpha-Phonics the beginner can be reading simple sentences by lesson three, and that can be even on the first day!

Other programs try to do too much. They inject grammar, pictures and other material, needlessly complicating the task. With Alpha-Phonics you just teach reading only. Alpha-Phonics has a BONUS in that you EASILY teach SPELLING as you go, lesson by lesson. You just spend a few minutes with each lesson doing oral and written dictation to teach spelling. Alpha-Phonics easily introduces over 3,500 words in its simple 128 lessons. Many children learn reading in only months. Alpha-Phonics also works very well for older, even grown adult, students who need remediation. Highly endorsed by leading homeschooling product reviewers Cathy Duffy and Mary Pride.

Alpha-Phonics is regularly recommended by The Robinson Curriculum organization. Print version used very successfully by hundreds of thousands for almost 30 years by parents, tutors and teachers. Works exceptionally well in teaching English as a Second Language. Publisher has a 24/7 Helpline if you need assistance. Amazon also has optional accompanying Readers and Practice Workbook. SPECIAL NOTE: Is there a negative about Alpha-Phonics? Yes. In the more than 25 years we’ve published Alpha-Phonics we have heard only one criticism. here it is: Some Moms say they think their child can become bored when taught with Alpha-Phonics. Too many parents are used to having fun-like, non-essential Bells & whistles, playing card decks, spin the needle, etc. Public Education has eschewed drill. They feel you have to entertain kids while teaching them. This only slows down the process. What many Moms don’t realize is that with Alpha-Phonics their student can be READING simple sentences even on day one! Students do see a lot of words in the lessons of Alpha-Phonics, but they quickly are READING those words; they are accomplishing, not being entertained. Moms who feel it looks boring soon realize their child is actually learning to READ (To sound out) words (Over 3,500 new words in Alpha-Phonics). Besides, those bells & whistles make the program more expensive and complicated. The huge sense of success in actually reading will soon overcome any short-lived sense of boredom. This makes ultimately for very happy Moms, Dads AND students. We almost forgot a super BONUS for some parents in using Alpha-Phonics with their children: Many of the adults become better readers as they progress through Alpha-Phonics with their child. Go with the one that has weathered the test of time. Go with the one that is SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE and INEXPENSIVE: Go with ALPHA-PHONICS

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www.nrrf.org The National Right to Read Foundation

The mission of The National Right to Read Foundation is to educate, advocate and encourage the application of the definitive findings of experimental, empirical research in reading instruction. This is the critical ingredient needed to move forward with the reforms necessary to reduce, and ultimately eliminate illiteracy.

Reading curricula for colleges of education and for public, private, sectarian and home-schooled students should all include direct, systematic instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, fluency and comprehension that decades of experimental, empirical research have proven to be the most effective.

All students must first “learn to read” proficiently. Then, and only then, will they be able to “read to learn” and thus have access to the vast treasure house of literature available at home, online, in the workplace, and in libraries everywhere. The National Right to Read Foundation is committed to providing information on a variety of scientifically validated resources to help parents and teachers accomplish these objectives.

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Logic of English™ Foundations teaches children age 4-7 to read real books without guessing or memorizing sight words while developing their writing, spelling, and language skills.

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Preparation notes, content notes, sample scripts, teaching tips, challenge activities and review…

Foundations Teacher’s Manuals have all the information you need to begin teaching the Logic of English immediately!

The Teacher’s Manual guides you through each lesson, from prep to each step of the instruction and the exercises, games, and optional activities.

Each lesson is designed to take about 30 minutes (Level A) to 90 minutes (Level D) and includes instruction and activities in two or more of the following areas: Phonemic Awareness, Phonograms, Handwriting, Spelling, Spelling Rules, Words, Vocabulary, Reading, Fluency, Comprehension.

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YesPhonics is a comprehensive phonics (step by step) system that anyone can teach! Everything you need to effectively teach reading, spelling, and writing is contained in one box.

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The secret codes in the YesPhonics™ Flash Card Phonogram Pack teach all 45 sounds heard in the English language. Capitalizing on the brilliant 72 Orton phonograms, each flash card illuminates every sound the letters (phonograms) make. They come in black and white for the students’ (and teacher) advantage–children can color the originals or the educator can make copies of each card for them to color.

Combining phonics sounds with mnemonic aids and illustrations, the Flash Card Phonogram Pack, unique to YesPhonics, helps students learn to read and understand words without arduous, unproductive memorization.

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Bob Books early readers book sets were designed to provide the path for children who are ready to take their first steps into reading.

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memoriapress.com How to Teach Phonics (And How Not To) By Cheryl Lowe

In the Summer 2014 Classical Teacher, I wrote an extensive article exploring the question, “What is the Classical Approach to Phonics?” The contention of that article was that there are two basic approaches to phonics in the classical education world: the traditional method and the Spalding method.

The Spalding method is based on the book The Writing Road to Reading (WRTR), written in 1957 by Romalda Spalding. Because the original 300-page manual is quite difficult, there have been a number of spin-offs that have sought to make the WRTR method more accessible.

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In this article I will review the two approaches and critique the Spalding method in terms of the principles of traditional and classical education. For the Spalding method I will use the 1990 edition of WRTR as I did in the previous article. For the traditional method I will use A Guide to Teaching Phonics by June Lyday Orton. There are many other traditional programs I could have chosen, but the Orton Guide is well organized, simple, and has great credibility due to the pioneering work in phonics of Dr. Orton. Moreover, I want to emphasize that Orton is in every respect a traditional method, despite the common belief that Orton and Spalding are very similar.

The Traditional (Orton) Method

Traditional phonics begins with the alphabet and one sound for each letter, which are then blended together to sound out words. In Lesson 1, Orton teaches the sound of short a and five consonants, which are then used to practice blending sounds into words. Lesson 1 includes three sentences with words such as fat, Sam, mat, bat, sat, made with three “sight” words, I, on, had. This method needs little explanation to those familiar with traditional phonics.

The Spalding (WRTR) Method

The Spalding method is quite complex, so I have summarized it in five steps:

www.memoriapress.com Classical Phonics, Second Edition $16.95

Classical Phonics is a deceptively simple little book our teachers and families use constantly in both kindergarten and first grade. It consists of phonetically arranged word lists for students to practice their growing phonics skills. In a word list there are no context clues, so the learner must rely on his mastery of letter sounds. For instance, if your child can pronounce each word in this list correctly—pot, pat, pit, put, pet—he knows his short vowel sounds, and you can move on to long vowels! If not, he needs more practice, and Classical Phonics is the most effective tool we know of to address the repetition that young ones need when learning to read. Classical Phonics can be used as a supplement to any phonics program, and covers nearly all English phonograms and sounds taught through second grade. Classical Phonics is your handy tool for phonics practice and for building confident readers.

www.memoriapress.com What Is the Classical Approach to Phonics? By Cheryl Lowe

There have been two answers to this last question in the classical education movement. On the one hand, there are those who believe that The Writing Road to Reading (WRTR), by Romalda Spalding, is the true classical approach and everything else could best be described as “phonics lite.” On the other hand, the leading publishing companies in the movement Veritas Press, Memoria Press, and Peace Hill Press do not use the Spalding method, and in fact, all have written their own phonics programs.

I submit that the Spalding method is so unique that the first division of phonics programs in the homeschooling world is between Spalding-type programs and everything else. Everything else I think can accurately be described as traditional phonics. Which is the better approach, or are they both equally effective? I will describe each and then provide a comparison in order to give the reader the tools to answer this question.

First, let’s look at traditional phonics, from which there are many programs to choose. It is true that each has a slightly different emphasis and different bells and whistles. Some are written for the homeschooling mother in an informal setting; some are written for the classroom. Some include printing instruction; some do not. Some phonics programs continue on for the whole of elementary school and include spelling and grammar; others just cover the basics. Some teach vowel-consonant blending and others consonant-vowel blending. Some have lots of songs, jingles, and fun activities; others are bare bones. Some are remedial; others are accelerated. A few have special marking systems. But with few exceptions, they all use some version of the traditional scope and sequence so they can all be classified as traditional.

What are the characteristics of traditional phonics that all of these programs have in common?

$14 at amazon Classical Phonics: A Child's Guide to Word Mastery by Cheryl Lowe

cathyduffyreviews.com review - Classical Phonics: A Child's Guide to Word Mastery by Cheryl Lowe

Classical Phonics: A Child’s Guide to Word Mastery is based on the 1913 book, Word Mastery, by Florence Akin. Akin’s simple approach to teaching phonics was updated with more modern illustrations, reorganized, and slightly expanded. It is similar in concept to Noah Webster’s Reading Handbook from Christian Liberty Press.

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Word mastery : a course in phonics for the first three grades by Akin, Florence, b. 1878

Publication date 1913

$14.95 at amazon Word Mastery: A Course in Phonics for the First Three Grades Paperback by Florence Akin

$5.99 at kindle Elementary Phonics: A Three-Year Phonics and Vocabulary Building Program [Print Replica] Kindle Edition by Sonja Glumich, Florence Akin

McGuffey's Eclectic Readers

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www.gutenberg.org McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition by William Holmes McGuffey

No illustrations, but claimed there was.

cathyduffyreviews.com Noah Webster's Reading Handbook - review by Cathy Duffy

This has got to be just about the cheapest resource for teaching phonics and beginning reading! It does a very adequate job, which should not be surprising since it’s an updated version of Webster’s original Blue-Backed Speller that was used to teach thousands (at least!) of children in past centuries.

Follow her link to purchase for $8.99

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Review by Michelle Way

My five-year-old son loves this book and so do I! I’ve researched and experimented with several phonics/reading programs, books, etc. but I think this is the best of them all. I really appreciate the simplicity of the lessons - no frills, bells or whistles - just solid phonics teaching. On a side note, many children struggle with b, d, p and q in the beginning stages of reading. The beauty of this book is that there are multiple opportunities in each lesson for the child to practice recognizing these letters. This book is so user-friendly for both teacher and child. I’m using this along with the McGuffey Eclectic Primer and am so encouraged by the progress my son is making. I wish I would have had this book when I taught my older son to read because it is just SO wonderful. I think this little gem belongs in every home and school. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!

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MONA'S CLOSING COMMENT

Don’t give up on common sense. How many teachers have felt that look-say was not working and raised their heads above the parapet only to be shot down by conforming LEAs? Teacher training and LEAs are to blame for 95% of today’s failure, - and STILL politicians trust them! Chris Woodhead truly said that education is “ a heavily policed thought world”, and the LEAs do most of the policing. They hold many carrots, many sticks to give or withhold funds and promotion. Parents and strugglers have nowhere to turn. Education is specifically excluded from the brief of the Ombudsman. I tried to use the council’s complaints procedure and got a reply from…. the LEA !

And still “professional learning” is made to sound good! Do teachers really need “continuing professional development” in such simple fields? Just let in common sense!

How many teachers, passionate, hard-working, have quit teaching because their pupils fail? They have followed their (mis)training, done their best, and they just get dreary hours of failure.

Literacy is the rising tide that lifts all ships. Even at the OLMOS (1 letter- 1 sound) stage, no end of names in an atlas can be read: India, Atlantic, Popocatepetl (and let the lesson wander off into geography, volcanoes…). This gives a point to learning to read for LIFE! You can make Bingo for names of fruit, animals, football teams, countries, rivers/mountains, cities, plants. A very popular one (to my surprise) is cooking ingredients. In contrast, pop groups fell flat!

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When I taught my daughter to read back in 2004, I was guided by Mona McNee’s Step By Step, daily phonics reading programme. I had previously taught my two sons to read using the same scheme. Deciding to update my resource materials I spent a lot of time creating games and worksheets shamelessly modelled on those featured in the book. It was always my intention to share these PDF documents. In the summer of 2010 work began on phonics4free.org. Shortly after I established contact with Mona to discuss sharing the sheets. Mona was taken with the idea. Since then she has very generously contributed her resources, expertise and guidance to help establish phonics4free.org as a number one reading resource.

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$20 at amazon Noah Webster's Spelling Book Method for Teaching Reading and Spelling Paperback by Mr. Donald L. Potter

It is a little known fact that reading was taught by means of spelling for over 200 years. Today the impact of spelling on reading achievement is not as well appreciated as it once was. The late Dr. Ronald P. Carver did extensive research into the causal relationships between spelling instruction and reading ability. Carver concluded, “One very important way to learn how to pronounce more words accurately is sometimes overlooked, that is, learning to spell more words accurately.” (Causes of High and Low Reading Achievement, p. 178). He also notes that “spelling was used to teach reading for almost 200 years, but by the beginning of the 20th century, the tide had so turned that learning to spell was largely seen as incidental to learning to read.” Quoting C. A. Perfetti, Carver observed, “practice at spelling should help reading more than practice of reading helps spelling.” (p. 179. In June of 2004 Miss Geraldine Rodgers sent me her essay, “Why Noah Webster’s Way Was the Right Way.” She argued from the history of reading and the psychology of reading that Webster’s spelling book method of teaching reading and spelling was superior to all other methods. I was surprised to learn that that Webster, in his 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language, defined a Spelling Book as, “ A book for teaching children to spell and read.” He also wrote under the entry, Spelling, “To tell the name of letters of a word, with a proper division of syllables, for the purpose of learning the pronunciation. In this manner children learn to read by first spelling the words.” You can see that Webster was quite clear about the dual purpose of the spelling books in his day. You can imagine my surprise at the improvement I began to get with my tutoring students when they started working through Webster’s Spelling Book. I decided to type up my own edition to use in my private tutoring and my tutoring work at the Odessa Christian School in Odessa, TX, where I teach remedial reading and Spanish. In this edition, I have retained everything in the original 1908 (descendant from the 1829 edition). The only differences relate to formatting. I chose to list the words in rows instead of columns. I also allow the words to divide at the ends of lines. I have found that this works fine for all students. We are teaching students to read and spell by syllables and not by word shapes or context. When reading and spelling are taught by the Spelling Book Method, all guessing at words from shape or context is completely eliminated. The student’s total focus is on pronouncing the words correctly, high levels of comprehension are a natural result.

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$12.50 on amazon First Readers Anthology: Samuel L. Blumenfeld's Phonics Readers - Don Potter

The First Readers Anthology is a collection of phonics readers (phonetically decodable texts) that were originally published in 1997 as eleven individually stapled booklets to be used with popular Blumenfeld’s Alpha-Phonics Reading Primer. The reading levels progress from beginning to upper elementary, virtually covering all the major spelling patterns of the English language. They encourage the development of fluent decoding and good comprehension. They can be used with any phonics reading program that starts with the short vowels. These are the readers to use if want children to read well without guessing from pictures or sight-words.

$9.99 Kindle Why Johnny Can't Read?: And What You Can Do About It Kindle Edition by Rudolf Flesch (Author)

Review by Mssr. Nomdeplume

This book has two parts: the first part, written as a letter to Johnny’s mother, explains the failings of adopting the See-And-Say method of teaching reading in American schools, and the second part outlines a very thorough and practical phonics method via word charts for reading mastery.

Samuel Blumenfeld

www.sermonaudio.com Why Teaching Phonics Is Essential To Christian Education

alphabetic writing system - irreducible speech sounds

God communicates with words not pictures

Progressives chose teaching english as an ideographic language. Taught to read pictures. Produces word guessers. Produces reading disability, the educators know this.

decoding the written word to get the spoken word.

Samuel T. Orton warned. 21 min.

Phonics Decodable Readers

Phonograms

Spell to Write and Read (SWR) curriculum

www.christianbook.com 70 Basic Phonogram Cards By: Wanda Sanseri

The English language is made up of 45 sounds which we spell in approximately 70 ways. A phonogram is a letter or set of letters used to represent one or more of these 45 sounds. The quickest, most natural way to learn to spell and to read the English language is to begin by learning the 70 foundational phonograms. The packet contains cards for each of these. The front of the card contains the phonogram in isolation. The back of each card gives the teacher all the information she needs to teach the phonogram. These cards should be used in conjunction with “Teaching Reading at Home”.

Part of the Spell to Write and Read (SWR) curriculum.

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75 basic single-letter and multi-letter phonogram flash cards. Complete with sample words and spelling aids for quick teacher reference. A staple of our Foundations and Essentials programs, these cards are also ideal for any classroom teacher, homeschool parent, private tutor, or anyone who wants to learn these essential building blocks of English.

25 single-letter phonograms
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All About Learning Press

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Use this free program on your computer, tablet, or phone. This app features clear pronunciation of the sounds of the phonograms (letters and letter combinations). Hear all 72 of the basic phonograms as taught in All About Reading and All About Spelling.

BRUCE DEITRICK PRICE

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Bruce Deitrick Price and Don Potter recommend each other.

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Hazel Logan Loring

$8.00 at amazon Reading Made Easy with Blend Phonics for First Grade: Plus Blend Phonics Fluency Drills Paperback by Mrs. Hazel Loring, Mr. Donald L. Potter

Reading Made Easy with Blend Phonics for First Grade was first published in 1980 by Hazel Logan Loring, who had taught it for many years in her first grade classes. It features instruction in directional guidance, which helps prevent reversals in reading. It has also proven very valuable in helping older students with reading problems. The accompanying Blend Phonics Fluency Drills were written by Mr. Donald L. Potter to help students to develop high levels of decoding fluency (accuracy and speed). The Fluency Drills have proven particularly valuable in helping struggling readers to overcome the whole-word guessing habit and improve reading efficiency.

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Reading Made Easy With Blend Phonics

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The purpose of this website is to promote Hazel Logan Loring’s 1980 Reading Made Easy with Blend Phonics for First Grade: Plus Blend Phonics Fluency Drills as the definitive solution to the problem of illiteracy in The United States and other English speaking countries.

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The Channel where you will find the Phonics Phonetic Codes placed in Phonetic Order. This Channel Is guided by a Powerful 25 page booklet called (Reading Made Easy With Blending Phonics), produced by the late Mrs. Hazel Logan Loring, Master Phonics Teacher. My name is Ronnie Tobler; I’m from Fort Lauderdale Florida. I produce Phonics Video for my Kids and share them with other parents. If you follow the Playlist Step you can’t go wrong.

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Mission: To transform lives by improving educational foundations through the Word of God.

40L believes that a firm educational foundation starts with the ability to read well. 40L’s free online phonics lessons and live phonics classes help develop this foundation.

To build upon this foundation, you also need a strong understanding of math.

The most important foundation is faith. Read the Bible so you can choose for yourself whom to serve. We pray that your eyes may be opened to the truth.

www.thephonicspage.org Parker's First Reader by Richard G. Parker c. 1851 by A.S. Barnes and Company

You can see the cover and introduction from Parker’s First Reader in our spelling section.

This book was designed to be used following Webster’s Speller. It has hyphens dividing words of more than one syllable to help beginning reading students trained in the reading of syllables through the use of Webster’s syllabary sound out longer words on their own through this syllable division aid.

Here are a few lessons from Parker’s First Reader to show how this worked, and also to show what a First Grade student should be capable of learning when they are taught Webster’s Way. As Parker himself says in Lesson IX:

thephonicspage youtube Webster: The Secret Power of Schwa

www.thephonicspage.org On Sight Words

www.thephonicspage.org Webster's Way, Or, The Power of the Syllabary

Excellent article. Mentions Don Potter’s production of Webster’s Speller.

ThePhonicsPage youtube Know Sight Words #1 - Short Vowels

Excellent video.

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thephonicspage.org Blending Words

This might be a good remedial approach.

thephonicspage.org/ Phonics Lessons Free phonics lessons in mp4 movie format.

DVD $7.84 at amazon recommended - LeapFrog: Letter Factory Ginny Westcott (Actor), Roy Allen Smith (Director)

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www.thenewamerican.com Dr. Orton's Great Discovery by Sam Blumenfeld

In fact, Orton was the first modern neuropathologist to recognize the harm that the new whole-word, or sight-word method, of teaching reading was having on children. He had studied cases of reading disability in Iowa in the late 1920s, and came to the conclusion that the cause of the children’s problems was this new teaching method.

Orton was not the first person to recognize this problem. It was first written about in 1844 by Samuel Stillman Greene (1810-1883) on behalf of the Boston Masters for their famous Remarks on the Seventh Annual Report of the Honorable Horace Mann, Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, in which they took to task the sight-reading method that had been adopted by the Boston primary schools in 1837 and produced a literacy disaster. And it was this critical essay that revealed who originated this new method of teaching reading: the Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet, the director of the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in Hartford, Connecticut, who taught the deaf to read via a sight method and thought that this method could be adapted for use by normal children.

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Today we know why this new sight-word method caused a literacy disaster. It forced children to use the right brain to perform the functions of the left brain (the site of the language faculty), which actually deforms the child’s brain, causing dyslexia. In fact, the sight method acts as a non-surgical pre-frontal lobotomy. However, since that portion of the brain is not actually physically removed, it can be repaired according to the latest findings of neuroscientists, revealing the brain‘s great plasticity..

However, in 1929, no one seemed to have read what the Boston Masters wrote in 1844. And as we know, when we ignore or forget history we are bound to repeat it. Not only was Dr. Orton unaware of what had been written in 1844, but educators of today are not aware of what Dr. Orton wrote in 1929. He said in as diplomatic way as possible:

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What is most critical is that Orton, in this essay, identified sight-reading methods as “faulty teaching methods,” actually accusing America’s top educators, who were responsible for propagating this new teaching method, as engaging in a form of educational malpractice. And that is why this article was never given the circulation it should have had. Indeed, the Journal of Educational Psychology was owned and edited by the very professors Orton was criticizing. And they saw to it that it never became widely known.

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But there is one large group of educators in America aware of this problem: the homeschoolers, who almost universally use intensive phonics to teach their children to read.