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....MORE ABOUT READING, the most important topic of all
THE MEANING OF THE LUCY CALKINS FIASCO
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/the_meaning_of_the_luc...
Please, everyone read this and confront what it's saying. This woman created a new version of Whole Word, i.e., another way to sell sight-words to unsuspecting victims. Basically all you have to do is promise the public a whole lot of new bells and whistles and then go full speed ahead with sight-words, more sight-words.
Lucy was the queen of sight-words for 20+ years and probably that means another 20 million functional illiterates, which just happens to be the same problem that Rudolf Flesch wrote his book about in 1955. That is, Why Johnny Can't Read. Because the schools conspired to eliminate phonics.
If you now search Google on the topics of reading, literacy, etc., you will find the most amazing assortment of mismatched ideas, jargon, theories, PhD weirdness. Whereas, with phonics everything is simple. Just teach the kids that letters represent sounds. If they don't know that, their education is basically over.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/the_meaning_of_the_luc...
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