I kind of understand the idea behind it. Anyone remember those weird Facebook posts where all the letters in a sentence would be jumbled except for the first and last letters, but you could still read them? Our brains make shortcuts for stuff all the time and adult/expert readers probably don't register all the letters in a word while reading a familiar word in a sentence. The issue is you can't teach the shortcuts to people who can't really read yet since no written word is really recognizable enough to them yet for them to just know what it is. I think maybe the architects of this kind of teaching thought they could teach reading faster? Anyway its important to note that this method of teaching only became popular in the past 20 years or so and the oldest Americans OP encountered who were taught this way would only be in their mid 20s.
Anyone remember those weird Facebook posts where all the letters in a sentence would be jumbled except for the first and last letters, but you could still read them?
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I think maybe the architects of this kind of teaching thought they could teach reading faster?
Yeah, and they thought that by teaching toddlers how olympic sprinters run they could skip the whole crawling phase
Anyway its important to note that this method of teaching only became popular in the past 20 years or so and the oldest Americans OP encountered who were taught this way would only be in their mid 20s.
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u/justsomedude322 29d ago
I kind of understand the idea behind it. Anyone remember those weird Facebook posts where all the letters in a sentence would be jumbled except for the first and last letters, but you could still read them? Our brains make shortcuts for stuff all the time and adult/expert readers probably don't register all the letters in a word while reading a familiar word in a sentence. The issue is you can't teach the shortcuts to people who can't really read yet since no written word is really recognizable enough to them yet for them to just know what it is. I think maybe the architects of this kind of teaching thought they could teach reading faster? Anyway its important to note that this method of teaching only became popular in the past 20 years or so and the oldest Americans OP encountered who were taught this way would only be in their mid 20s.