Speaking as a professional? You find it’s incoherent minds can’t see a unifying pattern consistent over time. Rather, babble nonsense proving the point endless.
“EA can’t write a coherent sentence?”
meaning united as or forming a whole.
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Dick and Jane series even with Spot and Puff complexity added used small whole words to teach reading.. Teaching K-P myself it was a start but lacked the education of phonics where literature resides in life, The series are now simply 30’s era nostalgia for collectors. Teach a word and a man can read that word. Teach an idea and a man can read forever.
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“In the later 1950s and early 1960s, Dick and Jane found themselves in troubled waters. In 1955, Rudolf Flesch struck out against look-say readers in his bestseller, Why Johnny Can’t Read. Flesch argued that the whole word method did not properly teach children how to read or to appreciate literature, because of its limited vocabulary and overly simplistic stories. Other phonics advocates in the 1960s echoed Flesch’s arguments, calling for new primers that focused on phonics and introduced students to real literature.”
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I remember a light bulb moment in 1946 still 8 in 3rd grade. Dad and I were walking east past G Gate Panhandle where we lived on Fell to see a movie at Harding Theater on Divisadero ( mid street of city S-N-from Haight where becomes Castro to Marina on the bay. Been in city since Jan ’42. I asked him how to spell Bakersfield ( long word ) cross Kern River from Oildale ( short word) . He said, OK, spell bakers. I did so he asked, field? Now just put them together. FLASH of light and I then knew how it’s done … sound out and combine with a lot of exceptions but you understand it anyway. Been on my own long ago across a galaxy far away with that concept ever since . Not failed me once!
Easy to see both work but ONLY if combined as a concept. Best example is
Helen Keller had NEVER heard nor SEEN a word yet Annie showed her the concept on her HAND and was understood then on. Then on could feel Puff or something similar and that’s CAT. Sight AND insight’s in the brain not the eyes.
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Not meaning to be too insulting here, aware the humor ,thanks, in Oscar’s ( really a family member? ) involved legalese. BUT a lot of self- important people’ve done very little in what becomes a long life with all previous attached to also view in the whole .
I sincerely doubt Black Momba EVER published a 5,0000 reader English language, self financed, weekly newspaper in a foreign country. Babble simplicity don’t sell! Interesting do! I called it “The Spangled Banner” with assist from a semi-official
chuckle sent by the Paris Embassy on State Department letterhead. Served the newly formed 52nd Tac Fighter Wing , Spangdahlem Air Base , Germany (look up Fighter City, USAFE)
inception Jan 1973 -1974j until DoD funding arrived 2nd year of operation. Just one person thought it up, sold ads and found a publisher who could do it one year that basis. My editorials were the talk of the Eifel Mtns., Laugh City but it worked. I toss off critics, water/duck’s back, who know very little and prove it.
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http://www.g2mil.com/spangdahlem.htm
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It’s unfortunate this former Marine seems to hate EVERYTHING currently existing in favor of something else could be done instead. When I arrived in May 1969, Spangdahlem was due to be closed. Just had a nice 9,000′ long runway close to closed to 1965 NATO French border. Stuck a thumb in DeGaul’s eye and worth every multi $100 million improvement 45 years since. “Nearness to Military bases?” Germany’s built a, new by 2010 ,
autobahn runs all the way from N Sea right by the base less than an hour away to the Army HQ’s. Really doubt this banana’s even been there to see. Don’t even mention large additional facilities at late 90’s closed Bitburg AB 7 mi away next flat hilltop to N with 2000 foot shorter , now civilian, runway . Fact was our B-66’s needed the extra 2K’ badly. While waiting orders my assignment was switched to Spang instead of well known Bitburg.. Had to look up where’s Spangdahlem Air Base? Attached to Bitburg waiting closure. 4 and half decades later? Shut her down; a
int that odd. 8