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University Professor of Education and Humanity, University of Virginia; Author of "Cultural Literacy: What Every American Should Know"
"Why Our Children Can't Read" is a superb achievement. A wide-ranging book that fuses history, linguistics, and psychology with the practicalities of teaching, its encouraging message is that every child can be taught if we teachers come to know exactly what we are doing. The book is spiced with well -researched critiques of 'whore language, ' of uninformed methods of 'phonies, ' and even of an eclectic 'balance' between phonics and whole language -- as well as devastating critiques of several other sacred cows. Some of these may moo back in protest, but this clearly written and authoritative work is the book to read for parents and teachers who wish everyone in our democracy to be able to read. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Diane McGuinness, using the scientific approach -- not pseudoscience -- has made an exhaustive study of, many writing systems, and has extracted the proper manner to teach our reading code.
She critiques many different reading programs and their so-called research: Whole word is disastrous; whereas, phonics is not complete.
As required by the scientific method, she has set up the proper experimental designs and conducted research to validate her approach.
All of her findings are statistically significant.
Dyslexic and ADD children have been taught how to read using her approach -- Diane's work questions the legitimacy of these educational "symptoms."
Easy to read. Chock full of goodies. A must read.
Rita Kramer complains about the occasional tone of the book that the author's "own method is the only way to teach reading". Don't be put off by that. The book does make (and justify) some very strong claims about what any successful method for learning to read and write has to do.
This book is the theory book. The companion "how to" or workbook, for parents doing home-schooling or trying to help their children learn to read, is "Reading Reflex", by Geoffry and Carmen McGuinness.
It's no surprise that the book is very critical of whole language, invented spelling, and such. But the real win for me was its critique of (traditional) phonics. Most phonics teaching stinks. It's unsystematic, and riddled with false claims and utterly confused classifications. Phonics is the way to go, but you do have to get it right.
Most controversial will be its claim that there is no such thing as dyslexia. If you or a family member are "dyslexic" or "LD", by all means get and read this book.
The book argues that dyslexia is not inborn but the result of being intellectually maimed by teaching mistakes. You can verify for yourself that these mistakes are pervasive throughout our school system and you can satisfy yourself that they are indeed mistakes: they are false statements about the writing system of English. One consequence of that is that the smarter the child, the more deeply he or she gets wedged if commanded to believe nonsense.
The book also claims that dyslexics can be rescued. It is not a snake-oil miracle cure; the "12 hour" figure is often cited, but this is only for getting a child unstuck and moving again. As the book discusses, adults and emotionally traumatized people take longer to get unstuck, and nobody learns to read from start to finish in 12 hours.
What the book is really claiming is that dyslexia is like being lost in a storm with a map that lies. You can struggle all you want but the map will subvert all your best efforts, and you give up. The moment you have a good map, your efforts become effective again.
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