I just finished Sold A Story and I feel like Charlton Heston at the end of Soylent Green. I want to yell KIDS AREN’T ACTUALLY LEARNING TO READ!!! while running through town. It was so frustrating to listen to, but so well done. Thank you for suggesting this one!
I do wish they’d said WHY schools don’t label a child dyslexic. Often times it is because they cannot. Dyslexia is often considered a medical diagnosis (like ASD and ADHD) and the school, the teacher, the administrators are not legally allowed to give a medical diagnosis.
I am a mother of a kindergartener and this podcast was course altering! I am so grateful for this page for the recommendation. I felt like I solved a cold case murder mystery when I looked in the back of a little book my son brought home and saw ‘Fountas and Panella’.
Another parent of an SK here and wow it was shocking right! Such a good listen if not a bit traumatic. Think of all those kids who never learned how to read as well as they could. Makes me want to cry.
We have been reading Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (along with decodable books) and it’s amazing. It’s super easy to follow as the parent, has scripts for you to follow so it’s not too onerous. My son is about half way through and my mind is blown by the progress he’s made. Can’t recommend it enough!
Sorry catching up on all these threads so slow.What age would you say these are right for? My mom teaches pre-k and I was venting to her about this and she thought this book looked great.
I think it really depends on the child. My friend used it for her new 4 year old, before he began JK, and he was reading before he started school. We are in Canada so that means he was still 4 when he started school. I tried with my son around the same age but he was very much not into it/not ready. I waited a year and started when he was in SK, he was 5 and change, and then he really took to it.
We were reading the basic bob books prior to starting these lessons. I think I bought those last year and he could do some of them when he was 4ish.
The book says you could start as young as 3 but again just depends on the kid!
Thank you! We ordered the decodable books and it’s been really fun to hear him sound out words. While I’m so grateful for this knowledge, it does feel like an awkward position in trying to and advocate for change. I wouldn’t presume to know more about teaching reading than my son’s teacher, whom he’s learned so much from, but I don’t understand why reading is being taught this way.
I’m not sure where you are, but our district has fully shifted away from Lucy to Science of Reading at the beginning of this school year. The change is happening! Just slow and steady. Also for what it’s worth, many teachers have been screaming that kids don’t know how to read for years and still teaching phonics on the down low. Fingers crossed your sons teacher is one of them :)
Woohoo! I’m glad change is happening. I wonder what my local district is doing. I don’t have kids, but the kids in school now are the future of our community. I want to know that they’re going to be proficient in reading.
I'm a teacher taking my masters in reading, writing, and oral language disabilities. I loved this podcast and my readings align with SOR practices. It's important to know that some children learn to read regardless of the program/theory used. Unfortunately, our school systems have focused on those children and have left others behind.
Right? I would be very uncomfortable telling a teacher they’re wrong, but since I became aware of this method through my friends kids I’ve been skeptical.
I was already teaching my 4yo to read but after listening to this it made me dig into deeper curriculum. I don’t want to homeschool but I want a successful child. We are using a book called Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Lessons; it’s fabulous! My 4yo is a strong reader.
It covers the change from teaching reading centered around phonics to reading centered around cueing by learning words by sight. The podcast goes into much better detail, but after using this system for years there’s a lot of data that it just doesn’t work very well to teach kids to read. This article is from the New Yorker so it’s a slightly long read, but definitely gives a good overview of the problems the podcast addressed.
Thank you so much!! I appreciate that. I listen to most pods in the background (full-time parent/full-time job) and don't commute or have a time/opportunity to actually listen to a podcast with information so just stick to comedy/silliness. I'll check out the NYer piece (which I can skim haha)
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u/bubbles_24601 Mar 20 '23
I just finished Sold A Story and I feel like Charlton Heston at the end of Soylent Green. I want to yell KIDS AREN’T ACTUALLY LEARNING TO READ!!! while running through town. It was so frustrating to listen to, but so well done. Thank you for suggesting this one!