The Coral Gables Times

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tem was adapted by the Redwood City educators for teaching reading. Their reasoning was that if the electronic classroom is successful in teaching a foreign language, it would be even more successful in teaching beginners to read their own language. FROM lightweight headsets the youngsters receive the recorded sounds of the language-vowels, consonants, diphthongs, and various combinations of sounds that sometimes confound the first-grader. "Fa-th-er," says the prerecorded lesson. Simultaneously, in a book on their desks, the youngsters see a picture of the word, the letters that form it, and the correct position of the lips in making the sound. Thanks to the new electronic system, which has been welded on to the old phonetic method (once again in favor in many school systems), the teacher is freed from the necessity of reading the lesson aloud. It enables her to rove the room, giving individual attention to those of her pupils who need it. THE DEVELOPER OF the new method is Dr. Helen Burke, Director of the Reading Clinic in Palo Alto, California, and a consultant to the nearby Redwood City school system. Dr. Burke designed her program for electronic equipment that could be adapted to the needs of the elementary grades. The program is unique in that it divorces phonetics from the direct teaching of reading and instead combines it with the teaching of writing, spelling, and oral-language skills. The first-graders of Mrs. Anne Loushin's class at the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School pioneered the new program. Engineers of the Dictaphone Corporation wired their classroom with 16 receiving positions and a standard office - dictating machine. Fifteen-minute lessons were prepared by Dr. Burke on red plastic belts and were placed in the machine. Pupils receive the lessons through their individual headsets. They're aided by a specially developed instruction book, "Phono-Phonic Fun," to see what they hear. The first part of the school year is devoted to the mastery of consonant sounds; from November to June vowel sounds-19 in all-are taught with emphasis on the mastery of long and short vowel sounds in words that range in difficulty up to those usually taught in the third grade. Last May, during the first year the program was tried, most of the class was so fluent in the sounding, spelling, and writing of monosyllable words that the last few weeks of the year could be devoted to the mastery of multisyllable words. THE Redwood City first-graders wound up by reading with ease such words as salamander, magazine, peppermint, spaghetti, and octopus. And they didn't even stumble over barbecue, porcupine, decorate, cucumbers, daffodils, microphone, and astronaut. "A child learns to unlock unknown words quickly," says Mrs. Loushin in sizing up the merits of the new system. And Dr. Burke adds, with satisfaction: "The real benefits became apparent as time passed. The pupils showed spectacular gains in their ability to sound out, write, spell, and use words in sentences. The time formerly devoted to the teaching of spelling and writing was greatly reduced." Wire Johnny for sound, apparently, and he can learn to read-and spell!

Mother told me what it takes to be a lady

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