We all know how reading can benefit us both in our personal and business lives. When we read, we learn many things and we even have the opportunity to improve our communication skills although we may not be aware of it.

Rudolph Flesch remains a force in education for an unexpected reason. The Education Establishment still pushes the bad methods that Flesch exposed 55 years ago in "Why Johnny Can't Read." Here's the message: children can't learn to read using sight-words.

"Clicks and clunks" is a reading comprehension technique.

Reading is a highly complex, integrated activity that daunts as many as 33 percent of the population.

Many children become proficient readers regardless of how they are taught. However, for children who experience difficulty learning to gain meaning from print, reading must be systematically and carefully taught. Mastering the following components of the reading process is essential if students are to become proficient readers.

I would like to try to make the argument that reading music is fundamentally superior to reading text for enhancing overall cognitive ability. Further, reading music is the best basic starting point for a child 's first steps toward reading ability.

Sight Words, Dolch Words, Whole Word, Balanced Literacy--all the methods that start by having children memorize word-shapes--assume that it is possible for average children to recognize many hundreds of words by their shapes. Children must do this instantly--an ability that is called automaticity. This ability is praised and promoted on hundreds of websites and in thousands of schools. It's routinely said that children "must" achieve automaticity.

I argue that this claim is sort of a sick joke, like telling all children, "You can learn to dunk the ball." I've just finished a thorough analysis of this issue for improve-Education.org.

The Education Establishment does a dreadful job of making sure kids can read; and then blames failure on the kids, claiming they are impaired, dyslexic, etc. The real villains are the bogus methods favored by our top educators.

Subtitle: Why does the US have 50,000,000 functional illiterates?? In 1955 Rudolf Flesch published a blockbuster called “Why Johnny Can’t Read.” In this still-relevant book Flesch lamented th

his article talks about how to empower your reader by teaching them how to apply decoding and comprehension strategies. Decoding should become increasingly automatic and comprehension should become increasingly strategic. The article outlines how to accomplish this.

Tips and strategies to help your struggling reader and focus on their strengths.