Dolch Words: How Dummies Teach Reading
Dolch Words: How Dummies Teach Reading
I never stop being amazed: some public schools are still pushing Sight Words and Dolch Words. This is highly irresponsible.
Whole Word rarely works. It expects children to memorize words as graphic designs, which is exceedingly difficult to do.
Please note, there is nothing special about our words that makes them easy to memorize. Memorizing 1000 sight-words is comparable to memorizing 1000 paintings, flags, cars, monuments, or movie stars. Indeed, memorizing English sight-words is probably more difficult than memorizing all these other categories of objects.
I’m always trying to think up quick ways to explain this difficulty, especially to young parents. I believe I’ve got a good one here. As a thought experiment, let’s think of the 100 people you know best. We’ll put their pictures in a projector and flash them
