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...ways of teaching reading. The "look-say" method tries to link the visual pattern of a word with its meaning, only to run up against confusing variations of form (all three letters of "AND" look different from those of "and," for example). Also difficult is trying to apply the phonic method, which teaches children to single out letters and their phonemic values so that they can read and spell analytically. In the 26-letter alphabet, one letter often represents different sounds in differing words-for example, the o in gone, one, go, do, women. One sound may also be spelled...
...office of the superintendent of education in Marin County, Calif., three elementary schoolteachers sat across a table facing four indignant supervisors. The supervisors had just made a horrifying discovery. The teachers had been teaching reading with a system based on pure phonics, and now, far from repenting, they wanted permission to buy a phonic text. As the debate raged back and forth, one supervisor finally blurted out: "But if we approve this book, other people will think we are giving in to Rudolf Flesch...
...Macon, Ga. and Champaign, 111. have experimented with a phonic system developed by a Texas schoolteacher named Cornelia Sloop. This also starts with vowel sounds, then goes on to consonants, and within a few weeks, to the rules of spelling. Last year Champaign found that while 43.4% of the pupils taught by the standard method scored below the nation al reading level, the score for the Sloop-trained pupils was only 20.7% below...
...reporter spoke up for the educators. Flesch's book, says Ruth Dunbar, "is a caricature, not a portrait . . . Johnny does learn to read in today's schools." It is true, says Reporter Dunbar, that most schools have in the first grade abandoned the old phonic (i.e., letter by letter and syllable by syllable) method of teaching a child to read in favor of the word method (i.e., teaching the child to recognize whole words by their appearance). But they have done so because, at the beginning, letters alone "are meaningless to the child." Thus "they teach Johnny...
...intermittently gripping shocker, House of Wax. utilizes the process known as Warner Phonic sound (multiple sound tracks and speakers) mostly for recording eerie musical effects and the screams of ingenues. The picture was photographed in Natural Vision 3-D (TIME, Dec. 15, 1952), and calls for Polaroid spectacles. Although the Natural Vision is an improvement on that in Bwana Devil, it still becomes blurry at times, and there is often little illusion of depth, particularly in closeups. The picture's writing and direction are also blurry, and the extra dimension is used primarily as a trick. All sorts...