Noah Webster's American Spelling Book (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Doug Harris]

> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Zurinskas
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:48 PM
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> Subject: Noah Webster's American Spelling Book
>

>
> 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.
>


You think 400 people out of a 1000 can't read?  You're kidding, right?
Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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. . . can't read truespel!
But look at this another way: While it's most likely (!) true that more
than 600 of 1000 Americans can read, it's a pretty good bet that of the
American population under age 30, 400 of 100 can't _spell_!
dh

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