Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a “pre-celebration” to boost their confidence, then take their exam.
Just sound it out was one of my least favorite things to be told as a child. That’s not how English works. Take Pacific Ocean for instance, literally every C in those two words is pronounced differently. And more importantly knowing how a word is pronounced is not going to give you any fucking understanding of what it means.
How is it hubris to say that not every student learns the same way? For real? No it’s hubris to say that everybody should have to learn the same way and you’re fucked if you don’t learn well.
Because it doesn’t seem like you’ve read the article nor have any real expertise in education, but you’re making grand pronouncements anyway.
“People learn in different ways” may be true, but is irrelevant to the point that some ways of teaching reading are ineffective or even counter-productive
Yes. And yes.
But you don’t want to talk about that it even says in the paragraph after the one you quoted that it didn’t work everywhere so what’s the point of even trying to talk to you?
Just sound it out was one of my least favorite things to be told as a child. That’s not how English works. Take Pacific Ocean for instance, literally every C in those two words is pronounced differently. And more importantly knowing how a word is pronounced is not going to give you any fucking understanding of what it means.
It’s certainly better than “look at the pictures and guess”.
Go read (or listen to) the article. People who have studied this more than either of us have weighed in.
Until the answer is “every student learns differently“ the answer will always be wrong.
That’s an amazing degree of hubris. Get out of here lol
How is it hubris to say that not every student learns the same way? For real? No it’s hubris to say that everybody should have to learn the same way and you’re fucked if you don’t learn well.
Because it doesn’t seem like you’ve read the article nor have any real expertise in education, but you’re making grand pronouncements anyway.
“People learn in different ways” may be true, but is irrelevant to the point that some ways of teaching reading are ineffective or even counter-productive
So you made an assumption and then instead of just asking me about it decided to be an asshole? Wow…
More of an inference that an assumption, really. But go on. Did you read the article? Do you have any expertise on the subject?
I think you’re feeding a troll
Yes. And yes. But you don’t want to talk about that it even says in the paragraph after the one you quoted that it didn’t work everywhere so what’s the point of even trying to talk to you?