How would you solve the literacy problem for FBA school children?
- Thread starter Voice of Reason
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If you're a parent, you teach your kid how to read. Starts with bedtime stories and books. If your child is dyslexic or had a learning problem, get then help. Make them read 30 mins a day before video games and TV time. Encourage their literacy. That's a part of your job as a parent.
feelosofer
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It's not hard. Now granted there are children who may have some learning blocks/disabilities but if you have children reading/literacy starts at birth.
I didn't do baby talk to any of my children. We spoke to our children in complete sentences, read them books every single night before they could talk. Worked on basic sight words and you don't have to do it for a long time. Take a half hour out the day usually before bed. But these parents put their kids infront of tablets and devices and don't really engage with them and even if they need help don't utilize the resources that are available to them. I myself needed speech therapy as a 4-5 yo and suffered from dyslexia but got the help I needed to do well in school.
I didn't do baby talk to any of my children. We spoke to our children in complete sentences, read them books every single night before they could talk. Worked on basic sight words and you don't have to do it for a long time. Take a half hour out the day usually before bed. But these parents put their kids infront of tablets and devices and don't really engage with them and even if they need help don't utilize the resources that are available to them. I myself needed speech therapy as a 4-5 yo and suffered from dyslexia but got the help I needed to do well in school.
Voice of Reason
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Good thread op… I think starting with parents can make a difference but let’s say that’s hard to accomplish since many ppl got many different thoughts or issues regarding that—time… can/should something be implemented in schools?
Piff Perkins
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Read to your children. Talk to your children. Make sure the school your children go to teaches phonics instead of "whole word" bullshyt (where kids are taught to guess words instead of phonically reading words).
Look up some vids of foreign babies blabbing. A french baby sounds French even before he/she learns a single word. You can hear the accent in their grunts or when they try to speak. Now think about an American baby: knowing that a baby's brain is wired by what they hear...what are you teaching your child if you aren't speaking properly? If you aren't reading? If all the baby hears is "stop!" or "no!" or "don't do that" then what is he/she learning. These are major reasons why black kids walk into kindergarten and are already behind white children. Or at least...it used to be. Now white parents aren't reading either and all the kids are in the same boat, fukked up.
Look up some vids of foreign babies blabbing. A french baby sounds French even before he/she learns a single word. You can hear the accent in their grunts or when they try to speak. Now think about an American baby: knowing that a baby's brain is wired by what they hear...what are you teaching your child if you aren't speaking properly? If you aren't reading? If all the baby hears is "stop!" or "no!" or "don't do that" then what is he/she learning. These are major reasons why black kids walk into kindergarten and are already behind white children. Or at least...it used to be. Now white parents aren't reading either and all the kids are in the same boat, fukked up.
all of these are good 
What I would add is incentivizing them so that you can trigger dopamine receptors for academic use, rather than have them triggered through all of the other things (YouTube, bad food, etc)
If you get your kid hooked on learning, they will choose to learn because of how it makes them feel.
Excessive reinforcement, bragging, repetitive encouragement will all make their brain think that academic achievement is what it should be searching for, rather than other stimulants
What I would add is incentivizing them so that you can trigger dopamine receptors for academic use, rather than have them triggered through all of the other things (YouTube, bad food, etc)
If you get your kid hooked on learning, they will choose to learn because of how it makes them feel.
Excessive reinforcement, bragging, repetitive encouragement will all make their brain think that academic achievement is what it should be searching for, rather than other stimulants
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No more PAWGs, PLEASE??!!!??
I'm gonna to say this, fixing the community starts at home.
Amo Husserl
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Black churches hosting free literacy classes three days a week taught by university-educated members of the church or family members of church members certified to teach literacy. There should be a suggested donation for materials.
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Taught all my kids to read before 3 years old. It’s not hard to do. It's takes the right tools and discipline (reading practice 5 days a week). I started teaching them phonics before they were one years old. They knew letter sounds before 2. Could sound out 3-5 letter words by 3. Could legit read well at 4.
Keys are:
Early early investment in phonics (songs are most effective)
Consistency
Scaffolding
Encouragement
Make it fun
If we could scale this up it would work. It's cheap and cost effective. Just requires dedicated people to implement it.
Start a nonprofit. Get big investors. Hire committed people who care about kids. Pilot the program. Market early success. Expand. Get positive press. Expand more. Done.
Keys are:
Early early investment in phonics (songs are most effective)
Consistency
Scaffolding
Encouragement
Make it fun
If we could scale this up it would work. It's cheap and cost effective. Just requires dedicated people to implement it.
Start a nonprofit. Get big investors. Hire committed people who care about kids. Pilot the program. Market early success. Expand. Get positive press. Expand more. Done.
cyndaquil
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This. The literacy problem is an extension of parents not taking the time to educate their children. The school can't do everything especially in those early childhood years which are crucial
Hater Eraser
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Piff Perkins
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I also think maintaining reading levels is super important, as kids get older. My mom made me read novels to her when I was 9-14. It's a chead code to greatly increase a child's vocabulary. And not just reading skills...reading retention. She'd have me read a chapter and then ask me to summarize what I just read. Huckleberry Finn, Moby dikk...a lot of the classic American novels for kids. Also some English stuff like Charles dikkens.
Go thru the Newbury Award winner lists and pick books from there. There are some black novels on there too. MC Higgins The Great for instance...classic black novel for kids.
Go thru the Newbury Award winner lists and pick books from there. There are some black novels on there too. MC Higgins The Great for instance...classic black novel for kids.
Tell the fukking lazy mother no father in the house to handle their responsibilities with their children and cut off the rap music you have blasting around them and stop having the little think only about sports
If u can fukk raw and have kids, then take accountability into your kids education
And stop with the excuses that coli nikkas are about to run up in here and stay blaming everyone else
If u can fukk raw and have kids, then take accountability into your kids education
And stop with the excuses that coli nikkas are about to run up in here and stay blaming everyone else
Coming from someone who acknowledges the difficulty of focusing to read but still managing to read a lot, that shyt starts at home
If I wasn't having books pushed in my face at 3 years old I wouldn't enjoy reading today
My mama would also quiz me on what I read so emphasis on comprehension was built early
If I wasn't having books pushed in my face at 3 years old I wouldn't enjoy reading today
My mama would also quiz me on what I read so emphasis on comprehension was built early
