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Teach Reading
With Phonics
TTy SHARON KILPATRICK
New. stair Writer
Last Tuesday Robert W. Sweet, president of the National Right to Read Foundation, talked to a small group of citizens about the advantages of teaching phonics.
The gathering was sponsored by the local Republican party and held in the Courthouse.
Mr. Sweet said there are many programs that can help children master phonics and that purchasing a "whole language system" costs schools four to five times as much as purchasing a phonics-based system.
Mr. Sweet said, "In most schools today in America children are trained to memorize words or look at the first and last letters. He said they can generally get through first and second grade. It is often third grade before reality hits that they can't read new works."
He said the current reading systems "works for some children, but 25 to 30 percent don't get it that way. There are many casualties. I have talked to thousands of parents of children 9 to 11 years of age that haven't mastered the basics."
He said all children can benefit from instruction in phonics and for some children "it is essential that they have direct systematic instruction in phonitJs."
He said it could be taught in a way that appeals to
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