Madison Co. Virginia | Brown Cow - 1/13/2024 23:05
You write what you read. I'm convinced the best way to teach spelling and grammar is to encourage reading. Growing up we had probably 2-3,000 different books in the house, and with no TV and little or no internet access one popular pastime if you didn't want to read a book was to pull out an encyclopedia and browse through it. Most of us learned to read at more or less the normal time, maybe 5 or 6, and progressed very quickly. One brother just refused to read until he was 9, and then read The Hobbit as his first book.
I agree, that prolific reading is the best way of learning spelling and grammar. I think there's still a place for formal spelling and grammar education, but it's not all-important. Similarly, the best way of learning science and social studies is through prolific reading. But a child will cherry-pick what they read and learn based on their interests, so there is still significant value in a formal science and social studies program.
I grew up in a family of six siblings. We would come home from our biweekly library trips with fifteen books on each of six library cards. That was in addition to a home library of a thousand books or so. |
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