On Aug 5, 2004, at 6:31 PM, John Baltutis wrote: > You've got it backwords. Learning to spell/read phonetically leads to > correctness, whereas the whole language approach is the one leaving our > youth illiterate, as demonstrated daily in education reports. No, IMO what leaves our youth illiterate is the belief that one method will work for every child, and the reality that a teacher with a big room full of kids is generally stuck with using only one method of teaching due to limited time and resources (and sometimes policy). -Mike