Speaking of that video on U.S. illiteracy.
The video contains clips filmed on the streets, where a dude with a microphone asks people he meets to "read the index card", and the card contains a short sentence with multi-syllable words.
I just realised the people who struggle reading are doing exactly what that alternate reading teaching method (anyone remember its name?) taught kids.
They're looking at the start of the word, its general length, and the words around it and essentially guessing what the word in question is. Sometimes they guess an existing word, sometimes they make up a nonsense word.
Charcuterie -> Character(er) Delicacies -> Delicious / Delicates Dazzled -> Clazzled Wore -> Were Silhouette -> Stiletto Sustain -> Substain Widespread -> Wild screen Admiration -> Administration Premonition -> Promotion Cataclysmic -> Cataslatic
Even when they start trying to actually read the word, they guess the end.
Meticulously -> Meta solution Deteriorated -> Deterieted
One even gave up half way through the word "deficiencies". She started saying the word right, but then failed to follow through, instead saying "define..sieie..ess".
It's so obvious, that they're doing precisely what they were taught to do and once you see it you can't unsee it.
It's clear this isn't just the result of living glued onto devices. They are specifically attempting to read using the strategies that one technique thought were the key to teaching kids to read. And they are very clear examples of how that technique Does Not Work.
The video contains clips filmed on the streets, where a dude with a microphone asks people he meets to "read the index card", and the card contains a short sentence with multi-syllable words.
I just realised the people who struggle reading are doing exactly what that alternate reading teaching method (anyone remember its name?) taught kids.
They're looking at the start of the word, its general length, and the words around it and essentially guessing what the word in question is. Sometimes they guess an existing word, sometimes they make up a nonsense word.
Charcuterie -> Character(er) Delicacies -> Delicious / Delicates Dazzled -> Clazzled Wore -> Were Silhouette -> Stiletto Sustain -> Substain Widespread -> Wild screen Admiration -> Administration Premonition -> Promotion Cataclysmic -> Cataslatic
Even when they start trying to actually read the word, they guess the end.
Meticulously -> Meta solution Deteriorated -> Deterieted
One even gave up half way through the word "deficiencies". She started saying the word right, but then failed to follow through, instead saying "define..sieie..ess".
It's so obvious, that they're doing precisely what they were taught to do and once you see it you can't unsee it.
It's clear this isn't just the result of living glued onto devices. They are specifically attempting to read using the strategies that one technique thought were the key to teaching kids to read. And they are very clear examples of how that technique Does Not Work.
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