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Show 0Ut!r att Hah? era Correspondence Revealed - Points To Value of Articulated Phonics FIRST, the Individual Vol. . 24, No. 22 SALT LAKE CITY, FRIDAY, JUNE $ 1901 We publish below an exchange of correspondence between the Superintendent of Curriculum of the Granite School District and the J. B. Lipponcott Company, book publishers. We would be the first to point out that a publisher will support his wares, however, we feel that spurious claims can be seen through and this paper takes the position, in regard to articulated phonics, that is taken by Mr. John V. Gordon of the J.B. Lippincott Company. We invite your letters regarding the published mat erial herewith presented. Ten Cents Per Copy - Military Holbrook Graduates at Annapolis Morrison is Air Corps Honor Man . The fellows who put out the cigarette called BRAND X have now put on the market a new laundry soap called WONT . . . somehow or other, we are for these boys. The job of the government schools, - is to self-announc- ed, GRANITE SCHOOL DISTRICT educate all Americans. Then there is absolutely no excuse for remedial reading classes. Their job is to teach reading, not fail- to teach it. - How long would you leave your child in a private school that did not teach him to read? Midshipman Holbrook (FHTNC) Midclass Douglas P. shipman first Holbrook, son of Paul Holbrook of Butte, Mont., and Mrs. Nevin F. Wetzel of 3625 S. 2210 E., Salt Lake City, Utah, is scheduled to graduate on June 7 from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. He will receive a bachelor of April 18, from the Navigation School at the Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, N. C. 19-we- He is serving with the. sta- tions Operations and head for Here). ek Upon graduation, he received the wings of a Naval Aerial Navigator. science degree and be commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. Midn. Holbrook, a graduate of Carbon High School, Price, Utah entered the academy in 1957, after attending the University of Utah at Salt Lake City, and Utah and Montana School of Mines at Butte. Graduation exercises for the 1961 class will climax colorful . June Week ceremonies at the academy. Engin- eering Squadron. ' Before entering the service in March 1960, he attended Granite High School, Salt Lake City, Utah. Believing in private enterprise as we do we billed everyone who has been getting the Herald. This put it on the line . . . Can the Herald continue publishing? This is Monday and we already know that we are in business. - CAMP PENDLETON FHTN Marine Pvt. Kenneth W. C) Kenison, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walt Kenison of 2040 E. Terra-Lindr., Salt Lake City, Utah, is scheduled to complete a de four-we- , I dont think the bombing of the three TV relay stations was sabotage . . . just a viewer who had had Westerns up to HERE (hold hand four feet above Honorman Morrison ANNAPOLIS individual combat ek training course, May 19, with CHERRY POINT (FHTNC) Marine Pfc. Patrick J. Morrison, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Morrison of 457 E. 2700 S., Salt Lake City, Utah., was graduated as honorman, the Regimental Training Unit at Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, Calif. (Mr. K.W. Kenisons picture is on Page 4) May 25, 1961 340 East 3545 South The New York Times has had an advertising campaign going on for some time to get more want ads for jobs. Their slogan is I got my job through the New York Times . . . then they show a picture of the man who did. Well, a wag put several such signs up using a picture of Castro. Assistant Superintendent of Instruction Granite School District Gentlemen: During the past year a considerable amount of attention has been given your publication Reading with Phonics by Julie Hay and Charles E. Win-g- o. Undoubtedly you have developed statements of points of view concerning the use of this material in the public schools. In your statements concerning the use of this material do you use the term articulated phonics to describe a part of the process in the teaching of reading? A committee of parents in our district continue to associate your phonic series with this term to describe a procedure which they are recommending for use in our district. It would be extremely helpful for us to receive an answer from you concerning this association of teaching reading materials with the label given. Salt Lake City 15, Utah Dear Mr. Farrer: I have just returned to the . I should like very much to receive an answer from you by return air mail in order that I might use your information to the mutual advantage of your publishing firm and our school district. Sincerely Yours, Another on the New York Times . . . they have a slogan on their front page banner: All the News Thats Fit to Print. Another wag has changed this to properly read: All the News That Fits the Tint. Mr. Kenneth C. Farrer, Salt Lake City 15, Utah J. B. Lippincott Company East Washington Square Philadelphia 5, Pennsylvania Kenneth C. Farrer. Assistant Superintendent (Instruction) 340 East 3545 South aboffice after a two-we- ek so to formust ask you sence, give the delay in answering your letter of May 5. . We have never used the Hay-Win- as, to hear your thoughts on this to you a petition signed by matter. Both times they were more than 2,000 householders told by your presiding officer in the district - one signature per family. that you were not yet preparGentlemen: On May 23. 4,020 voters aped for discussion. May we ask what preparations you have proved your bond issue. This Many parents in Granite Disto some see trict would like made in the meantime, what probably represents the .wishes of about 2,000 families. evidence that their representinformation you have acquirAre not the wishes of 2,000 are decision? on. this a board ed on which to base atives giving ' r Have you asked "for"' data households for phonics teach- -' consideration to methods of Reaching reading other than the. Grandview; School, Osborn Dis- -j from the Franklin School in ing as worthy of your consider:j method advocated in basal reatrict, Phoenix, Arizona, where New York; the schools' of ation as the wishes of 2,000 households' in' regard to a fior .the lowest child scored at the Champaign, Illinois; ther parder mahudis', the" look-sa- y ' v' measure? ?whole word method." r.. J 91 percentile on the Calif- - ochial schools in HawiirOs-bor- n nancing ' from Are we to understand District, Phoenix, Ari- j From what school districts, . dttifa Achievement Test? ' indivian ' -' time Jthe gave a schools or zona We you any using have waited a long ' using any of the systematic " atMr. the Romney,1 for' your discus- -' systematic- articulated phonics'' ..dual, ,a articulated phonics methods', ' April 4 meeting that his single, have yoir se cured test results sibn of thisMssue. Oh March; program?;; On March 21, Utah Parents vote against .phonics is to be And information to provide a 21 and again on April 4 large as basis of comparison with' our " numbers uf parents came "but' For Basic Education presented weighed in your thinking nine schools using the complete basal reader approach? Are any of our schools in Granite District scoring as high as all the schools in Argo Summit Bedford Park District in Illinois? Can you cite one first grade-clasin Granite scoring as well as the first grade class in: -- - . 5 . time,,-"'gentlemen;- - - ;.-v- , . go articulate speech. The basal readers,- on the other hand, do not formulate (phonics) clearly or systematically. For instance, which leads the look-gueparade, offers a rs meager phonetic diet to of beginning and end-diconsonant sounds, a few derivative word endings, and a few rhyming words. They also run in a business which they term phonetic substitution, whereby the youngster who has presumably learned lump as a sight word replaces the 1 with a b to solve the new word bump. However, if the (Cont. on Page 3 Col. 4) - Scott-Foresm- an, ss first-grade- ng . Utah Parents for Basic Education Read Statement to Granite School Board, May President and. members of the Board of Education, Granite District ex- pression articulated phonics to describe the program. However, I believe it to be an apt and correct brief definition of its essence. Webster defines articulate as . . . expressed or formulated clearly or systematically; distinct and . . . divided into words and syllables; distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligilble; 26, 1961 ' equivalant to the votes of 89.5 percent of the parents and taxpayers who do want phonics? Can you deny the validity of the random sampling technique used in our survey when random sampling is accepted in computing the norm' for the Stanford Achievement Tests? If you .must persist in denying that we speak for the great majority in' pur' district on this issue, perhaps the time' has come (if it is not already long ' overdue) to provide a secret ballot of the taxpayers.7 The people who- pay muist' have a voice in. how, their money is spent. Our , position .is as sim- pie as that. -- - -- ( . |
