Let's readCynthia A. Barnhart
Let's read
by Cynthia A. Barnhart · first published 2010
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I think this is the thread where I should recommend the best book to teach reading: Let's Read, a Linguistic Approach http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Read-A-Linguistic-Approach/dp/081... I got the recommendation here in HN and I used the book with my 2 daughters. I started with my first daughter when…
on “Improving the way kids are taught to 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” ↗…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” ↗…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” ↗…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” ↗…children, including the three who spent significant parts of their childhood in a mostly Chinese-speaking environment (reducing their exposure to English speech and English printed materials). The book Let's Read, a Linguistic Approach http://wsupress.wayne.edu/slp/bloomfieldlr.htm http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Read-A-Linguistic-Approach/dp/081... by Leonard Bloomfield (an eminent linguist and pioneer of new methods…
on “My son's flashcard routine” ↗Thanks for the recommendation. If this comment piqued anyone else's interest, as it did mine, there is an updated version of Bloomfield's Let’s Read: https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Read-Linguistic-Clarence-Barnhar... There is some discussion of the differences in the two editions in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4665466 as well as the reviews…
on “Eric Carle has died” ↗