![]() ![]() Harry Hattyar, Illiteracy in America: Understanding and Resolving a Grave National Problem. I am proud to publish a major new work by Mr. I highly recommend they as an easy-to-understand assessment of what’s wrong with reading instruction in America. These audio documents hit the reading world like a bombshell. McMahon, of Danbury State College spoke on this very issue back in 1965: The McHahon Syndrome.Įmily Hanford: A Journalist Looks at Reading Instruction. A concise presentation of recent research supporting the wisdom of our long-held advocacy for strong phonics first instruction. The Massive Impact of Literacy on the Brain and Its Consequences for Education (2011) by Stanislas Dehaene. I highly recommend Bruce Price's education clips. I have 2 YouTube Channels because I lost access to the first one when Google took over YouTube. Here is my new YouTube Channel: Don Potter. Vanessa Petters has published YouTube video, Reading Programs Missing Link: 100% Decodable Stories, that makes a good complement to my essay.Ĭlick here for my old You Tube Videos: DonLPotter. A document that I have been working on for some time concerning the dangers of teaching sight-words by whole-word memorization. A Proposal for a Phonics-First Framework for the Diagnosis and Teaching of Educational Factor The files are all over my website, but this document has links to take you to each document. You can find all the articles I have published from the Reading Reform Foundation. Blumenfeld's good friend, Watson Washburn, " The Disintegration of Our School System.”ġ4. ![]() Blumenfeld: Why Teaching Phonics is Essential for Christian Education. "How Should We Teach our Children to Write? Cursive First, Print Later!ġ3. Samuel's, Jean Spiroff and Harry Singer's 1974 article " Effects of Pictures and Contextual Conditions on Learning to Read."ġ2. Here is a recent article (2008) Sam sent me " Why Pictures in Reading Instruction Are Harmful." Also read this research project on Pictures. Blumenfeld delivered at the 1975 Reading Reform Foundation Convention: Letter Precision.ġ1. Blumenfeld delivered at the 1974 Reading Reform Foundation convention: Why America Still Has a Reading Problem.ġ0. Blumenfeld's decodable readers as First Readers Anthology.ĩ. Purchase Blumenfeld's Alpha-Phonics (2005). Blumenfeld sent me his eye-opening 1988 article, Dyslexia: The Disease You Get in School.Ĩ. You can read more of Sam's insights from my document: The New Illiterates - Quotes.ħ. Blumenfeld sent me on 6/06/05: How to Cure Dyslexia.Ħ. Twenty Years After Rudolf Flesch: Are the New Basal Reading Programs Doing the Job (1975)ĥ. For more information on "Miscue Analysis" read: Critique of Miscue Analysis by Hempenstall.Ĥ. Blumenfeld: Miscue Analysis: Training Normal Children to Read Like Defective Children. Here is another thought provoking article by Dr. Blumenfeld wrote " Further Investigation" regarding Mr. Here is my March 2012 revision for those who prefer a 100% Dolch version of the Holistic Words. Here is my YouTube clip explaining the MWIA. Blumenfeld’s Dyslexia article in Spanish. Edward Miller, the author of The Sight Word Eliminator and the Miller Word Identification Assessment (MWIA). Samuel Blumenfeld published this breakthrough article on whole-word dyslexia featuring the work of Mr. Can Dyslexia Be Artificially Induced in School? Yes, Says Researcher Edward Miller. ![]() " I like to say, "Using a sight-associational method to teach a sound-associational system creates associational confusion."ġ. Also, using sound symbols as ideographic symbols, one creates symbolic confusion. By eliminating the sense of sound from the reading process, one is breaking the crucial link between the alphabetically written word and its spoken equivalent. Blumenfeld's insight is basic: "When you impose an ideographic teaching technique on an alphabetic writing system you get a reading disability. Reading programs that deemphasize the connection between letters and speech-sounds that letters represent nurture faulty reading then, children who fail in such programs are labeled dyslexic with the assumption they are not able to learn to read." Dr. "An overwhelming body of evidence supports the belief that whether children learn to read, and how easily they learn to read, is largely dependent on the method by which they are taught. Although the page has grown to be rather long, I trust that the rich information I have been able to acquire over the years will prove highly beneficial to parents, teachers, researchers, and administrators responsible for reading instruction.ĭon reading Charles Major's exciting 1908 adventure story This page has grown since early 2003, when it was first launched, as my research into reading and reading instructions has grown. ![]()
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