Let's readLeonard Bloomfield
Let's read
a linguistic approach
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…particularly enjoyed the Henry and Mudge books https://www.amazon.com/dp/1534427139, and everything by Arnold Lobel. If you are trying to teach kids to read, let me highly recommend Bloomfield’s workbook Let’s Read from the early 60s, which I heard about from a 2012 comment here on HN by Tokenadult. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0814311156 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4665466 Bloomfield was one of the leading…
on “Eric Carle has died” ↗…videos, some educational, and some not. She is close to being an independent reader. I give her a reading lesson each school weekday, and a math lesson. (My favored materials are Bloomfield and Barnhart's Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Linguistic-Approach-Leonard-Bloom... and the Miquon Math http://www.keypress.com/x6252.xml series.) So I guide my children's activities, but they…
on “An Unschooling Manifesto” ↗Fans of "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" might wish to check out "Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach" [0]. It uses a similar phonics approach but uses basic pattern matching to teach kids in a much simpler format. Be sure to check out the reviews for the original and newer edition.…
on “Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong” ↗…http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Michael-Spivak/dp/0914098918/ http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Vol-One-Variable-Introduction... http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Vol-Multi-Variable-Algebra-Ap... Elementary reading: By far the best initial reading text is Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Linguistic-Approach-Leonard-Bloom... but there are many other good reading series, including Primary Phonics http://www.epsbooks.com/dynamic/catalog/series.asp?seriesonl...…
on “A Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education” ↗A good book for developing reading skill and getting kids hooked on reading (it has worked for all four of my children) is Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach. http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Linguistic-Approach-Leonard-Bloom...
on “Would You Unschool Your Child? ” ↗…correspondences of English (or whatever language's) writing system and skills for pronouncing unfamiliar words first seen in print. All four of my children, now avid readers, got a lot of help from the book Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach by Leonard Bloomfield and Clarence Barnhart. http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Linguistic-Approach-Leonard-Bloom... I like the stories in that book, too, especially the very last story.
on “How to Raise Boys Who Read” ↗…consistent sound-symbol correspondence rules of English spelling. (This is called "phonics" in the context of teaching reading to native speakers of English.) My favorite book recommendation for this is Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach, by linguist Leonard Bloomfield and lexicographer Clarence Barnhart. All four of my children learned to read well with this book. The book is now in a second edition http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Read-A-Linguistic-Approach/dp/081...…
on “English has been my pain for 15 years” ↗…with a reformed, consistent spelling such as Spanish. But linguists have applied thoughtful effort to improving reading instruction in English, and it is possible with the best materials, for example Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach by Leonard Bloomfield and Clarence Barnhart, http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Linguistic-Approach-Leonard-Bloom... to make great progress in reading English independently in less than…
on “English Is The Toughest European Language To Learn” ↗