{"id":2422,"date":"2023-02-07T12:27:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2023-02-07T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:37:22","slug":"phonics-and-the-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2023\/02\/07\/phonics-and-the-state-of-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonics and the State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our friend Jonathan Mayhew<\/a> has been wondering<\/a> whether the “balanced literacy<\/a>” approach to teaching reading has neglected fundamental ways the brain apprehends and organizes sound itself, to the detriment of a generation or more of young would-be readers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Professors of education are not neuroscientists, but perhaps they should be. … I’m thinking that language acquisition begins with prosody, and so little children are very good already at sound.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Mayhew’s post reminded me why I would not be watching – that is, listening to<\/em> – tonight’s State of the Union address by President Biden<\/a>. No spoken set-piece is less mellifluous than this thing, its aural rhythms undermined by round after round of applause as if at the point of a cattle prod. (I might have it on silent, though, to catch any actual “action.”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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