[HN Gopher] In the Fight over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Ma...
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       In the Fight over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Makes a Major
       Retreat
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2022-05-22 20:06 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | rahimnathwani wrote:
       | PSA: If you have a 3-5 year-old child who isn't yet reading
       | independently, you don't need any special training to teach them
       | to read English.
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       | Just 15 mins per day a few days per week, and a single book:
       | Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
       | https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671631985/
       | 
       | The only requirements are that you can read, and can spare 15
       | mins per day. I guess that applies to ~100% of HN readers.
       | 
       | You _could_ rely on your kid 's school to teach them to read, but
       | learning to read with 1:1 direct instruction is just _so_
       | efficient.
       | 
       | I've posted about this book on HN before (and I myself first read
       | about it here). Here's an excerpt from an email an HN user sent
       | me recently:
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       | "Last year, I bought the book for my 4 year old and we slowly
       | worked through it. Now he can read about as well as his 8 year
       | old friends."
        
       | rahimnathwani wrote:
       | "The last two or three years, what I've learned from the science
       | of reading work has been transformational"
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       | The research is over 20 years old. For years, people have been
       | calling on her to fess up, and on school districts to switch to
       | methods that are actually proven to work.
       | 
       | This is too little too late.
        
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