About Reading On Rails

Atlanta, Georgia
United States

Learning how the 43 sounds of English are formed by the 26 letters of the alphabet simply has to be easier and faster than tedious and futile attempts to memorize an entire vocabulary. Besides, nearly all adults and children detest rote memorization. Don't you? What happens instead is that the lucky/talented students learn to recognize and decode the most common spelling patterns on their own. These children are counted as instructional "successes," when in fact, they are merely survivors. The less fortunate students never even learn to read from left to right consistently, so “DNA” often looks like “AND.” Their reading comprehension is zero, so they are eventually forced to drop out of high school.

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