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Show . , - i ! -- . ,. , , ,-- - ,, , - , ,. 'Llils ,, ,... --th- e, , - ' ' - - - ' ' ' ' Solt Lake City, Tuesday, September 27, 1955 - -- ' moit conspicuous cx f deadly- warier., between the entrenched perts" and the advocates of 'now sense' in reading is the reception of the primer I'Reading With Phonics". by Nay and official family of the cators saying anything even slightly favorable to the natural - ' - - lege gives at least one course how to teach reading; every course on how, to teach reading is based on a textbook; every one of those textbooks is Written one of the high priests dr the Wingo, published by the T. B.1iby i word method. 'some Lippincott Company. By was lin-miracle, thie textbook company, In 'thP old, days l to keep a good teacher ' pessible decided to liump, into the fray., . ram following her own corn-thaft& publishthe sense and practical knowl'man on book, the dnIYprimer , L, market tocity that is based edge; today the phonetic, eve. tern of teaching reading is kept firmly on the alphabetic-phi-out of our schools as effectively petic princIpIe . a The book was duly reviewed as if we had dictatorship with an Ministry of all.pov!erful In Element ry English maga. lication. zine by Dr.1 Celia B. Stendler TOMORROW Learning or of the University of Illinois. I Is a Guessing? Wprd - English quote: "Reading With Pholanguage? Is failure nics' does not fit the modern p to learn to read the fault of conception of the place of phoparents? How does a child nies in a reading program . . One wonders1 at the naivete of le n words If be can't sound the authors . . One wonders, th01 out? Is word guessing too, whether he authors have pro' ticed only by beginners, or ever had the thrill of seeing do hildren In the higher grades a group of children learn to do jt, too? - the - beet WHY -- JOHNNY read by Ithe use of modern CA?ore TT READ. by Rudolf leach, methods. The zest with which copyright 19511, by Harper & 'broth. ere) these children approach readDistribute a by The Itegister end Ing and the eal with which Tribune Syndicate, .....00. they read will almost certainly be lost if we turn the clock back 20 years with IteadineZWith Phonies.',(Thla from someone who is all for turning the clock back 3,500 yeall) . Now that I hvire gone through NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (UP) dozens and dozens of books on An Air Force board began an reading, I know how well It all Investigation Tuesday to defits together. The primers and termine why an readers are keyed to the text- rescue helicopter fell apart in books on how to'teach reading, mid-ai- r Monday afternoon, carand the textbooks are all caretwo Air Force men to rying fully written so that every OW deaths; teacher-I- n the land is shielded First Lt. Edward C. Angel, 24, from any Information - about how of Burbank, Calif., the pilot, to teach children- anything and Airman IC Vincent C. about letters and sounds. Neumann,13, of Patterson, NI, A Fool Proof System were killed when the helicopter - all crashed in a field two miles a fool It's system proof , l teach. northwest of the municipal airtight Every er in the country has to go to a port here, .1 -- t ). - g- unpublished. Taught his Daughter , the ' country's elementary English teachers 12 years ago; The most serious' drawback of all IIMrs. the English reading Instruction decided to do Keefe Kathleen known to me is the drawsome "detective work" in the back of the The child who fails to grasp the trunk of her husband's car content of iehat he reads is and needed some real police- Monday. usually a poor reader in the men to get her out had the After officers pried mechanical sense If you open the locked trunk door, want to play the piano with and expression, you must Mrs. Keefe crawled out and master, the keyboard and learn explained: ' II was doing a bit of deto use your fingers on it. The work in my husband'a tective chief source of difficulty in when ear the trunk closed?' getting the content of reading 'She didn't say what she Is imperfect mastery of the We was trying lo "detect.' mechanics of reading must train the child to respond vocally to the sight of letters. ,,,:.47 9t (UC word-metho- d "01. r And what did the teachers and reading experts do after the greatest scientist in the field bad explained to them their mistake? Absolutely no. 14 1;r1 ' ao .,. . tI ...............,. Diamond Glass ',., , GAS WATER HEATERS , h 1 Guarantee.' 1. , : iot - -..,. t t ( t- -) - V..- ' Irse, yes lit $30 trodo4o 1, yssr old water took : emponfloss sf soodittss. , - Ar star .0.4. ifir , xce 1 ... , LIVING IT UP on shipboard , NEW-YOR- , , , . , , ,,, , , 7, ,,,.. , II it , s, .., .. - A u , i ' , 1 i) ( il - . , ,- I. , - I -- - .. - -- , , - - ' - -- 4 . . , : , - TOPEK A, 1 T I , 1r7-, 4 ? 04 i the blaze which was started ip veteran . t . 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I'm tired of being whci loveLeaket , it I - Itsk , , 40 ; ., ., ,, , Hti Nk. , Things - are thaping . t, 1,4 l , .H I - U. . tit ,t .. , . , k '!ii, 1 . . fri' s . . , !,:)4 li . - - k' f.';!.!, Now We're Equal . K (UP). Crew- . men aboard the Ifner lie de 4 Trance enjoyed the recent landing of the vessel when 4 I LW orldfamous entertainer --7111 So. Stets I Maurice Chevalier and singer UM 4,1134 P , , '''', - f Cindy, 7, had gotten outof the ear unnoticed a few mites back. . , 41c The -- patrolmaninformed i. Chince that his .daughter, Lively Landing Paymopts Only $5.00 , - 4 -, .'' 77.7'4 -- --oak - ....1 :, ,- at - k -.- , t 14 COLUMBUS, OHIO (UP) Col. Peter Chance (retired), of Lacanadas Calif.. was sur prised when a suburban Whitehall patrolman stopped him but be soon found out why. :'1. ' ON l'"' N' o,, 4,,, I it Didn't Even Miss HerI , . -- I - 10-Y- rs t I . , - 'di .4 I : 1 i - lf arrived at the address. A piece of wire around its neck indicated it was someone's pet. A T q),, 41 ' . 4e4, thing. ' , sl '.'" 1,, , I one-ma- n , bh: one-ha- bite I - Was This Way, OfficerY'See So Decided To Spy My Hubby It 1 1"Yi AIN book Dr. Hughes questioned the limited vocibu' of our reading primers. Six years ago, in 1949, Dr. Hughes and a Vivian K. Cox, wrote a treatise on "The Language of First Grade Children!' It was published in . 'besides textbooks, are books available for childmil to reid.Look through the children's abelvei at' the p u library. You'll see beautifully printed, magnificently Illustrated books like "Our Great NortbWest." It's true that theretre not enough of these books on the shelves in the classrooms. Do. ' you know why? Because as tax. payers tou insist that the educators keep budgets to an ab. solute minimum. - larks N -- i , troversial I I - - - 4 the November and December 1949 issues of "Elementary English." Use Language Dynamically Dr. Hughes observed that "children used over two and times as many different words as the beginning reading I . books." She also asserted that children used language more asked how ean I be so good dynamically than the books. Georgia Gibbs livened Up the and my brother so bad." arrival with a little "rock 'n' Here's a paragraph from the roll." Chevalier is in the.U.S. article: f Good Reasoning show at New for a "What can the writers of be York's Lyceum. Theater. PASADENA, CALIF. (UP) ginning readers for children Sgt. Keith McKay learn from a knowledge of chil,Police She Wasn't Fooling said a woman called him on dren's language ability at the the telephone to ask if she age they enter the first grade? MILWAUKEE, WIS. (UP) could'paint her license plates Ttey and the teachers can Mrs. Norbert Scidlitz telepink to match the color recognize that children can use phoned police Monday to tell ,'pale of her car. He said she could language with greater maturity them "There's an alligator in than that now used in current not. "T h a t's ridiculous," the reading books; therefore, some my back yard." woman told McKay. "I see Police were skeptical but ears with different colored . found an 18inch alligator AC plates every day." staring at them when they eldest daughter Anne to read when she was five years old. She's ten now and reads anything and everything,, all the : time. Here is what Bloomfield told "":N 11 s grade-schoo- - '' ' 4 . o , . reading,--Includin- ch . The American Scene 7 - - - your-"John- ny" be ridiculoui Flefich maintains That if you teach the phonetic method of reading exclusively you can give Johnny- a little primer and.then "proceed iminediatelY to anything from the Readers Digest to 'Treasure Island'." Suppose you're an ordinary layman. Could you read and understand a highly technical treatise on disease of the liver? You probably wouldn't get a thing out of itor out of anything else that you couldn't understand. Dr. Marie Hughes, of the University of Utah College of Education, points out that any vocabulary is built up of words that are repeated often enough that they are memorized. has shown, she says, that a child needs to meet a word from five to 44 times in order-tplace it permanently in his vocabulary. The average number of times is 26, she says. also is critical of the limited number of words used in reading primers. Long before Flesch wrote his con- Helicopter Crash The introduction to this Bloomfield primer was, however, published as an article in the Elementary English Review hi April and May 1942. I ran across that article eight or ten years ago and that's whet started me on this whole business. Taking the ideas of that article and applying them in homemade 'fashion, I taught my n , , d - A,F. Board Probes - - - li i - , - . adds something to the story and to you. Go into the classroom and see is not a repetition for word pro- nunciation, Many first grade them write about the man who children are bored with the be- rakes leaves across the street ginning , reading materials and i See the teachers, contrary. to their are frank and accurate in , their i flesch's charges, follow, -' n COMMOn sense andPree of them., low appritsat So you see educators are per-- tical biowledge in improvising haps their own most stern ingenious methods to teach the - intellig critics. Long .before Flesch'sd the gent and practical integration of shotgun blast at textbooks teachers themselves were taking phonics into the reading prod a critical look at the problem-Dr- . gram; Truman's Cousin Wins Consider, after you have emphatleally Hughes ludiIS. Europe NATO Post points out that textbooks are visited your school, how not the only reading materials crous is Flesch's charge that used in the schools. The best ,"today the phonetic system of NAPLES, ITALY (UP)Brig. and most effective materials are teaching reading is as effec- !Gen. Louis W. Truman, a secthose that the pupils produce tivelY kept out of the schools as ond cousin of th4 former Amer. if we had a dictatorship with an lean president,, Monday was themselves. If you want to see the truth ministry of .educa- appointed plans and operations of this statement do as hive ,tion." chief of NATO's southern Also check to see what other Europe command. done. Go with a second grade - 'Rudolf Flesch, critic of American methods of teaching reading would have you believe that all teachers and all educators are i from learning to read. He blithely asserts that there are "one or two dozen" textbook houses in America, each publishing stumbling blocks to reading written by "educational drudges." Actually there are 67 members of the American Textbook Publishers Institute and - altogether about 150 firms that publish textbooks. Obviously they publish many books other than reading primers. If as !legal charges, their textbooks really don't teach children to read, they'd soon go out of business. Nobody would be able to read their other books.. les'iike trying to prove that an ice cream merchant really alma to'teach children to hate ice cream. There's no logic to the contention. Flesch maintains that all the readers are carefully writ-- s ten so that they.will contain only words that the child understands and a certain number of new words repeated at carefully worked out intervals. , , Step by Step Process What s so wrong with that? If you were building a ladder for a you'd make the steps pretty close together, wouldn't you? When your child is learning to speak do you talk to him in four syllable words? Of course not. Let's not neck-deep-i- e -- - , , self-style- I - ' . - - - exPerimentation is needed to class to visit a dairy farm and discoverwhether or not the then a dairy. See the dynamic discrepancy need be so great l living stories they write about Stories for children should be the experience. Treasure as I written so that each sentence have done the4 letters they write iZs By LAVOR H. CHAFFIN News Education Writer - -- . to - , 4 4 , it Hay-Wingo- it - ZIT , ,, In the last few pages of that botk, Bloomfield dealt with the teaching of English and reading In our schools.' "Our schools," he wrote, "are utterly benighted No- In linguistic matters thing could be ing than to read our methods tionalists' 'treatises of teaching children' to read." Several years later. Bloom field took time out to prepare an alphabetic-phoneti- c primer, based on strictly scientific prin. doles. It was an excellent piece of work, carefully designed to teach children quickly and painlessly. After Bloomfield's death In 1949 his literary executor offered the manuscript to every single elementary textbook publisher in the United States. Not one of them considered it. As I am writing, the book is still more-discoura- - . hoopind- with Its Policy, lad drosontine both sides of News end Telegram is prosonfine this rebuttal t. an 11ditetattetwo: itudelf Iffirsch's arounwrds. The pinint expressed In this rlos of iletiCHFS, , Thai, which began Monday, t,h,"' ;0 this newspaper. K. :re.ortio. NowsRlitdonotoon Wrathr. Otir..Ctioffie his answers. froo; With start members if the and atter elmonit'ori adrrstattO: Department ef fal Iducatioh ' IlithorSeh Utah, and the Salt Lake City litheels1 . -- ---- 41, . ---- . , . . , , - , . "IC" 41:,:urt 0 In 1933. , col- edueation;--everyteatherst- - s ample.-.6f7thi. edu- - , . , rt - ' - , , teacbets4 college orJschool of The - , - , , . - ' - ' - - r "... 2' ....., tnethodofteaching reading. Mention the alphabetic method or phonetics or suphonks" and you immediately arouse derision, furious hostility, or icy silence. Take thecaseof .thelate Dr Leonard Bloomfield, professor oflinguistics at Yale., Dr. Bloomfield wasn't just any scholar In the field of language; he was universally recognized as the greatest American- - linguist of modern times. Ills ,rnasterplecc wag a book simply called "Language," published - . -- .' . T- 4 - Continued From First Page ' . :- - .0 DESERET NEWS AND TELEGRAM, - t , I . - '' , , -- -- ,i- 'ilk- , , , r , - . , . . , ,, ., |