Noah Webster's American Spelling Book (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Scot LaFaive]

Four out of 10 does seem a tad high, in "civilized" countries at
least. Of course, I'm not sure what the actual estimated amount would
be.

Scot

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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> > Synthetic phonics is going back to this form of phonetics
> > first teaching.  It works.  It was said in the late 1800's
> > that maybe 4 in 1,000 couldn't read.  Now its about 100 times that.
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> You think 400 people out of a 1000 can't read?  You're kidding, right?
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