Grade Level Reading (GLR) Another Con Game in Education?

Do you see that 60 percent of Florida's fourth graders are not reading on grade level?

This is not a new problem. Retarding America: the Imprisonment of Potential discusses the same findings in a Justice Department Study released in 1993. No telling how much money has been spent doing exactly the OPPOSITE of what this book finds. Phonics works to teach ALL children to read. But, Progressive reading instruction has been made so complicated and obtuse they really do not actually teach children to read.

I have five grandchildren and the oldest three have ALL had special tutoring. Why? Because two were taught with Sing Spell Read and Write that has now been bought by Pearson a partner in the education cabal with Bill Gates with Common core. That program has now been corrupted with the "eclectic" approach favored by the Education Establishment. Sue Dickson created a good program. Pearson bought it and corrupted it. Both of those were at private schools.

The third attended first grade in a public school in Mobile, Alabama. It was a given that Whole Language would be the method, but it was touted as the best in Mobile. I had hope that a good Phonics background might possibly have infiltrated. He came to visit and in listening to him "read" I knew it had not and he needed help. And fast. I do not believe in waiting until the third grade to "fix it". By then they are so discouraged they have given up.





Let me share with you the Education Establishment's idea of training for teaching reading.  These are "attack skills" for reading. If you see this in your child's classroom, RUN!



The "methods" above will be taught in a Progressive classroom. That is why children are illiterate. Below you will find a screen shot from the Florida State University catalog. Do you see phonics anywhere?   Do you see anything regarding using Explicit Phonics to Directly instruct children in reading?  Below you will see how important Hillsdale College considers Phonics. 
Notice HILLSDALE COLLEGE calls it EXPLICIT PHONICS and that is quite different from ECLECTIC/WHOLE LANGUAGE. 
This is the catalog entry for Elementary Education from Pensacola Christian which uses the ABEKA curriculum.


So what is Grade Level Reading? First of all it is a bigoted concept that makes distinctions between the abilities of children in different economic strata. Why is their answer always something new and untested? Why not use a program known for its effectiveness for all children?




These screen shots are from the Grade Level reading https://gradelevelreading.net/resources/technology-for-successful-parenting


 This reminds me of the Music Man. Reading-infused? How about the think system. Just put a band instrument/book in the kid's hand and he will WANT to play/read and therefore-- ta da!!! he plays/reads!



I just love that part about "world-class standards" and "equitable opportunity"! Just what does that mean? I would prefer United States standards since our education system was ONCE THE ENVY OF THE WORLD! But now that we have COMMON CORE BASED ON THE WORLD CORE CURRICULUM OF ROBERT MULLER AND THE UNITED NATIONS, THOSE STANDARDS HAVE DECLINED!

NOW BACK TO THIS GRADE LEVEL READING. YOU SEE A CAMPAIGN AND A LOT OF MONEY SPENT, BUT HAS THIS BEEN TESTED ANYWHERE? WHAT IS THE EMPIRICAL DATA ON THIS? OR ARE WE JUST DOING ANOTHER FEEL GOOD PROJECT BASED ON POLITICS AND NOT DATA?





NOW WE GET DOWN TO THE FUNDERS FOR THIS PROJECT. GEORGE SOROS AND THE OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS MAKE ME NERVOUS AS DOES THE CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE KNOWING HOW BIASED THEY ARE AGAINST ANYTHING CONSERVATIVE.

Apparently Systematic, Intensive, Direct and Early Phonics Instruction is now considered "conservative" since mainly Christian schools use it. And yet, all children, black and white learn best with Intensive Phonics. Marva Collins used Professor Phonics Gives Sound Advice and Open Court Readers and taught minority children labeled Learning Disabled/Dyslexic/etc. to read when the public schools could not.


My conclusion regarding the Grade Level Reading is that third grade is too late to begin teaching children to read. That was exactly what we saw with our grandson. According to the school, he was doing fine. But listening to him attempt to read I knew he was struggling. We sent him to Diane Steensland, the only person I know who can identify, analyze and remediate effectively. She showed me how he could sound out the initial sound and the ending sound and would guess what might be in the middle. If you look above at those "attack skills" you will see that according to Progressive teaching, he was doing as he had been instructed--guessing. He now attends an ABEKA school and thrives. Praise God!

Now, it would appear Grade Level Reading is doing another one of those feel good campaigns that I have seen so often.

There an excellent Phonics program that works for all children, but it is so effective and inexpensive the Establishment Educators refuse to use it!
https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/spalding-writing-road-to-reading-and.html

My goodness! If you used a program that actually worked, all those reading specialists would be out of business!  All of those book publishers that sell remediation materials to go along with the reading books would be unnecessary!

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-politics-of-common-core-powerpoint.html

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-truth-about-phonics-that-will-help.html

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2018/07/sing-spell-read-and-write-dolce-word.html

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2018/05/social-engineering-co-operative.html

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-bigotry-of-low-expectations-profits.html

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-truth-about-phonics-that-will-help.html

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-yes-we-can-movement-to-manipulate.html

These are some posts on my blog that are the most pertinent to this issue. There are many others that might interest you as well. Welcome to my blog.