Why Sing, Spell, Read & Write is the Correct Program for Teaching Children to Read
By Geraldine E. Rodgers
September 9, 1985
"But even the guessing is not the end of the sad story and all the reason for our terrible reading disabilities in this country. Reading is only the door into the tower of knowledge, to refer to a medieval picture drawn to show“learning.” Once children know how to read, they can START to be educated. Marva Collins of Chicago,who teaches real phonics, has her third graders read Chaucer, and her upper graders reading even heavier, REAL literature. It is no wonder her students’ essays show incredible language ability: wonderful syntax, marvelous vocabulary. She has been feeding them wonderful syntax, marvelous vocabulary. She has been feeding them wonderful syntax and marvelous vocabulary in the books she has them reading. Yet basal readers and most subjects area texts in our schools today are “dumbed down”so the children never have a chance to acquire the complex vocabulary and syntax of the literature of Western Civilization."
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