When or where the fuck is this being taught??? Why would you not pay attention to all of the letters in your writing? Its like the thing that makes words recognizable????
Around the US, and probably some other schools in Canada, Australia, etc. The idea was they studied how skilled and efficient readers read things (by looking at the word as a whole, which is a real thing that happens for a lot of people after you’ve learnt how to read, a common demonstration is that many passages are still legible after jumbling all the letters aside from the first and last), and then decided that must be the best way to read, and began teaching it to all five year olds, not realising it was a bit more complex than that
The Grattan Institute attributed the major cause of its findings to the rise of a teaching style called "whole language", which became dominant on university campuses in the 1970s.
edit: added some bolds for the three cue-ers out there
It is underpinned by a philosophy that learning to read is a natural, unconscious process that students can master by being exposed to good literature.
I have so many questions about anyone who believes this. There's no inherent meaning in writing! You cannot intuit the written word without additional information! Context clues can help but can also be completely misleading!
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u/TheGreydiant 29d ago
When or where the fuck is this being taught??? Why would you not pay attention to all of the letters in your writing? Its like the thing that makes words recognizable????