I was taught "whole word" because of my speech impediment. I think it only made things worst for me. My daughter has the same issue so we sent her to a private school for 4 years that taught phonics. You wouldn't know she ever had a language issue unless she told you of her daily struggles with it.
I didn't know I wasn't able to read because I didn't know I needed glasses. I developed are really good memory so I seem smarter than I actually am. Don't know if that was the actual cause, or I just have it in my genes (Mom has a really good memory).
I was taught "whole word" because of my speech impediment. I think it only made things worst for me. My daughter has the same issue so we sent her to a private school for 4 years that taught phonics. You wouldn't know she ever had a language issue unless she told you of her daily struggles with it.
Whole word reading was designed to get you to accept whole concepts without being able to break them down into their components.
In other words, it's a brainwashing tool.
I didn't know I wasn't able to read because I didn't know I needed glasses. I developed are really good memory so I seem smarter than I actually am. Don't know if that was the actual cause, or I just have it in my genes (Mom has a really good memory).