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Why Johnny Can't Read: And What You Can Do About It Library Binding – April 1, 1993

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The classic book on phonics--the method of teaching recommended by the U.S. Department of Education. Contains complete materials and instructions on teaching children to read at home.

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Buccaneer Books
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April 1, 1993
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1568491387
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978-1568491387
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Buccaneer Books (April 1, 1993)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Library Binding ‏ : ‎ 222 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1568491387
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1568491387
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 3 - 8 years, from customers
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches

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Tamara

Can't Live Without This Book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 16, 2015

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I have copies of this book coming out my ears. I used it to teach my sons to read and I use it for the students I tutor. I've examined 20+ reading and phonics programs, and this is the best by far. The lessons are at the end of the book, and while the rest of the book is interesting (and still applicable to schools today), it's not necessary to read it to use the lessons. Teaching reading is not rocket science, and it's a disgrace that children and adults read no better than they do. These lessons resolve the issue. They organize phonetic "rules" (not presented as "rules") into the most logical order I've ever seen and simplify the process of learning to read while also taking the learner further than any other program does. I taught my sons to read when each was six and never taught reading again. From that point, it was merely a matter of making sure they had increasingly challenging reading material. At six, they were smoothly reading my Reader's Digest. On the other hand, I did modify the program a little. The lessons are just word lists. I ask students to use words in sentences a lot. We play with words -- have fun with them. When lessons introduce multiple rules at once (e.g., ee and ea as a long e), I make separate lists for each and when those are mastered, we move on to the combined list to practice. I also wrote little books for my sons along the way, using words I knew they could already read, and I do the same for my students. It doesn't take long before that is unnecessary. My greatest piece of advice about using this reading program is to trust the order in which it's presented. It's not like others, but it works far, far better. Flesch taught his granddaughter in one summer. That's probably a bit aggressive for most six-year-olds, but 6-9 months is certainly reasonable.

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William L. Lipton Jr.

Johnny by Johnny

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 21, 2011

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Growing up, I was told that I was the Johnny in the title. I was never able to confirm that, and had hoped that finally finding the book would allow me to. It didn't. However, it did establish that the methodology described in the book was the one applied to me in 1954 -- when, at age ten and in fifth grade, I was still unable to read. Today, it is a methodology embodied in the basic "Hooked on Phonics" tapes and CD's.

I used the phonics theories outlined in "Johnny" (with the tapes when they first came out) to teach my children to read -- my oldest daughter was reading by age three, was doing her grandmother's crossword puzzle books by five and was accepted into Harvard at sixteen. Another took a few courses at Harvard and decided to study at Boston College instead; his two younger sisters joining him there. All were high school valedictorians.

I do not know if I was the Johnny of the title -- I am not the boy described in the book (who, was two years older than I, when the technique was applied to him), but I can attest to the fact that it is a book worth reading. Certainly a book which provides a basis for any expectant parent who would like their child to have a real head start in life's basics -- so that they are prepared, have the requisite basics, before they are exposed to their first computer.

I rate this a MUST HAVE for any perspective parent, or grandparent. It does not require a child to have a learning disorder in order for them to profit enormously from this common sense, pragmatic, approach to teaching them a basic skill for life.

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M. Miller

The best!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 13, 2022

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I was going to teach reading to adults this fall at our library. Needed a refresher.

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Leanne Davis

Doing this! Very easy to read, understand and follow

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 9, 2014

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I like the idea of teaching my first grader skills instead of waiting for him to learn to "guess" the words he's learning to read. It's frustrating to me to hear him list out words that don't even start with the letter of the word he's trying to figure out because he's using the "picture clues" to deduce the word he doesn't know. It's a lot quicker to actually look at the letters, find the sounds, say them out loud and then blend them together, and lo and behold he's able to read the before, unknown word! I am excited to have found this. I don't care if it's from the 50's or now...it makes sense to me, and seems like a much more articulate and well thought out method of actually teaching children to read, versus having them memorize and guess words (or use the pictures). Reading to me isn't pictures or looking around the page for context clues...reading is looking at each and every letter/sound combinations from left to right, and figuring out the actual word, NOT guessing it. I just don't think one should need flashcards to learn how to read. As we go through our sight word flash cards for school, I am nothing but frustrated thinking this is not reading. We are memorizing. This is an easy book to read and follow. The lessons are kind of old school simple and self explanatory, but so far they are working. Sometimes we get too far away from the basics. This feels like the necessary basics to me.

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Maria Minno

An empowering book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 5, 2016

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This book is awesome for helping kids who have been neglected by educators actually learn how to read! Everything you need is right here. Reading programs for homeschooling, as well as public and private schools can neglect to teach reading properly, leaving even the most intelligent children lost and insecure about how to read. This book is empowering! The lessons are the right size for young and older students to work on daily. They are not dumbed-down or boring. My grandson was in a private Waldorf school for first and second grade, and never learned the first thing about how to read. My daughter tried to homeschool him, not knowing that he hadn't even gotten the most basic elements he needed to decode the written word. After years of believing he was simply a failure, my friend recommended this book to her. She had used to teach her son (who had not been able to learn to read in the public schools). Her son is a well-educated and very successful IT guy now! My daughter tried it with my grandson, now in 5th grade, and he went from 1st grade reading level to grade level in only a few months! My 7/8 year old granddaughter is also learning to read with this book's program, and is about even with her older brother already!

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Dr. Kevin White, Sussex University

An American classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 31, 2021

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Johnny Can't Read set the debates on dyslexia in motion in the early 1960s. This is a later edition, but it is essential reading for anyone involved in teaching special needs or students with learning difficulties.

park3r

This book is really good and many children and parents can benefit from phonetics.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 30, 2019

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Clear and concise. There is some extremely good and important information about how we learn to read contained within.

Shaun Thomson

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 24, 2017

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Very good!

Amy

Interesting Read, Useful for Phonics Instruction, Racist in Places

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 19, 2021

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I bought this book because I remember my parents using it with me back in the '80s, and now my child is ready to start learning to read. I wanted to give him a good head start on phonics since there is still 3-cueing in our province's reading curriculum and because there is a good chance that this school year will be interrupted by the pandemic. It was interesting to read about the long history of the debate over phonics vs. whole language in reading instruction that is still going on today. I am using the lists in the back of the book for a sequence of words and spelling patterns to teach, but practising the skills using activities, puzzles, and games that I've found on Pinterest and Teachers Pay Teachers. They are more fun for my kid, and I've noticed a few racist words in the exercises that I don't think would be appropriate to teach a child. I guess it's to be expected in a book from the 1950s, but we can do better today.

Update: I've found that a really good way to practice the words on the lists is to print them on different colours of cardstock and make them into tic-tac-toe pieces. My kid really likes playing and he knows how to read all the words in lists 1 - 10 now.

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excellent service

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 24, 2012

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My tutor told me that she read this book when she was studying for her degree when she was a student.

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