Why We Stopped Teaching Children How to Read
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Why Whole Word Isn't the Answer
One out of every four highly used English words is spelled in a tricky way. Mark O'Mara: The idea that children learn word by word by memorizing, that's a terrible idea. He says there are these families of words that are misspelled and they actually have patterned learning just like learning how to sound things out. "It's not as chaotic as it looks from the outside"
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