Confusing common opinions
and popular bias.

A POSSIBLE ROOT CAUSE
FOR READING FAILURE

The basic problem seems
to have been obscured
by the pell-mell race
to expand literacy.

Perhaps the "reading class"
really didn't care that
large groups of the population
didn't learn
to read.

After all,
slavery was accepted
in most world cultures
until the last 200 years.

Slaves don't have
to read.

The few that do can be scribes.

The ruling reading class
never really tried
to provide equality.

Perhaps they were fearful
that the slaves would
rise up and rebel.

Poor reading still makes slaves
of large parts of our population.

If this is true
Peterson Reading opens
a wide range of possibilities
for the societies of the future.

It's time
to rethink the basics of reading.

Many teachers and publishers seem
to have gotten off the track.

Profit-making of printed books
and other forms of media
have interfered
with our best modality
for learning.

Oral learning is
faster and more memorable.

Hearing and visualizing scenarios
in the brain
works better than
seeing,
then converting
to auditory,
then creating the scenarios
that can be triggered
for recall.

Ah ha!

It finally occurred
to me that there was
a missing link that
could help many students
have positive experiences
with other forms of oral reading
until they more easily
transferred their highly-developed
auditory skills
to print reading.

Students learn easier
by mastering the parts
before being asked
to master the whole.

Traditional reading suffers
from the classic problem of
asking the student
to exhibit several distinct behaviors
at the same time
rather than dividing the task
into its component parts.

New breakdown of steps
to teach in reading.

Build confidence first.

Add additional
reading skills very slowly.

Retelling parts of an activity,
reinforcing when child adds more details.
Retelling parts of an oral story.

Retelling more parts
of the oral story and
adding details.

Adding interpretation
from accumulated experiences.

Link these skills
with other more advanced oral skills.

Storytelling on tape.

Students correct themselves
by listening
to their own tapes.

Oral reading
with a taped example.

Push the barriers
of oral knowledge acquisition.

Now let children read
on their own
without criticism and correction.

Last is
silent sight-reading.

Children's goals - mainstream acceptance.
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