In the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second grade teacher in New York. Later I became a learning and reading specialist and taught teachers.
In my training, I know (and later taught) that the most effective way to teach children and adults to read English is a combination of phonics and entir-“Can the phonifornia reading phonics be solved in the California reading? Inside push for revisions,” June 2). Little 85% of English Spelling follows one of many known phonics patterns. The remaining 15% written English words should be memorized or determined from the context.
Unfortunately, at this time, the New York State has adopted a balanced language language method, teaching politicians choose to buy a curriculum emerging in Australia. Australia’s curriculum itself is very good and true part of the curriculum we use in New York. Without phonics substance, however, the generations of California students rode an oar.
Kudos in California for the end correcting this tragic error.
Jane Drablocker, Studio City
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In the editor: I have to smile when I read that Gov. Newsom “promise his support … to fund teacher training to New method “ (Attempt mine). It’s a “back of the future” moment for me. Phonics is one of the tested and genuine techniques used to teach the reading back in the sun (I’m about 80). Even today, I use it to sound new words I have found. For those who have become more credible reading methods, I suggest that a method should not avoid another.
I will add teaching too Diamarming should be seriously considered as a means of improving reading skills. When my Latin School teacher knows that most of our class has no solid understanding of the English word structure (grammar and syntax), he transferred us to a new intelligence to teach us Latin. I joke my children I had to learn English before I could understand Latin.
John Beckman, Chino Hills
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In the editor: As Yogi Berra says say, “Deja it’s all!” That teaches teachers how to teach the artworks and language for 30 years, I have reached many conclusions:
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2. English is a hard language to learn to read.
3. This is not what you teach, how you teach it. As many teachers have been watched as they teach phonics, I quickly know that you can teach it ineffective.
4. The direct instruction of any reading skills requires step-in-step, modeling and management. Miss a teaching step and students fail to learn.
5. No one is an effective teaching strategy. We need to use them all.
Diana Wolff, Rancho Palos Verdes
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In the editor: I am very happy that phonics are a focus of California schools. When I was in the second grade in the 1950s, my class spent Tuesday afternoon with a phonics workbook. Then it was a wonderful change from the regular class, but I never imagined how much it would make me use for many years. I think of the Japanese almost every day and surprise what work keeps helping me with spelling and pronunciation. I’m a professional writer, and the study of phonics makes me better.
Maria every day, Culver City
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In the editor: Here we will come again with the pendulum to give up. Thirty years ago, I was the director of a state funded by the state, professionally developing the professional K-12 program of reading and literature. At that time, the whole language is the doing method of teaching. Some parents and teachers, protesting that their children cannot read, and children have not passed on US education education in the Californe education in the Los Angeles School. The program I work is completely spreading our professional development to keep new curriculum, but reading scores don’t have much. And now, 30 years later, we have returned our way.
Is it possible no one way to teach kids today how to read? Is it possible that children can learn more if classes are small, screens used in education and topics in books are more relevant? Will the pendulum continue to swing every 30 years?
Anne Sirota, Northridge
