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Must be regional, because my 13, 9, and 5 year olds all sounded/are sounding out words in public school 🤷♂️
tbh i dont really remember being taught how to read as a kid, other than i really struggled with lower case l vs capital I because they look exactly the fucking same half the time and autism. anyway i was taught to sound out words but i dont think it really made that much of a difference for me, other than giving me a mediocre ability to say words correctly after only reading them. the biggest thing was having things i was motivated to read. wanting to know wtf the words meant got me to look them up and wanting to know what happens next in the stories i was reading kept me going. the actual being taught how to read part of learning to read is such a tiny part. i think a much bigger issue is the structure of kid prison systematically beating the curiosity out of people.
Congrats on learning how ⅔ of the Turtle Islanders operate day-to-day.
Now you're aware why we insult them with rainbows of derogatories without being ableist about it.
To this day, they are also rank illiterate too.
My wife’s generation was the last to teach civics in junior high, so yes, zoomers & alphies are politically illiterate as well.😔
These are strategies that borderline illiterate people will use to try to understand words
... Children who are learning to read are borderline illiterate. That's. That's the whole point.
No, when we were teaching our child to read they would try to do this instead of sounding out or reading the words and just make up whatever the pictures looked like. It wasn't taught that way to them as far as I know, it was just a sneaky way of cheating, which didn't work. Now they can read at 2 grade levels higher than they are because we taught them how to sound out words correctly.
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It is interesting that in How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adle he says to read the work twice. The second time is a deeper read where you should look things up, however the first read through, if you don't know a word just try to guess at it from context. This is helpful with slang or words that have dual meanings, or for older works where the word might have changed meanings since then. Like Shakespeare's use of the word weed.
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Sorry, I can’t figure out extracting a link from this on mobile; on photon and on quokka’s default ui trying to copy the link just brings up my video player and I can’t find a direct link method 😭
The image is just a gif of a guy saying “what the fuuuck”