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Multiple award-winning book on reading and spelling education that will transform how you think about English!
- Do you know a student who is good at math or science but struggles with reading or spelling?
- Has a student ever asked you a question about English spelling to which you replied, "That's an exception"?
- Have you ever abandoned a word while writing because spell check didn't recognize it?
Discover this revolutionary method that Dr. Temple Grandin called "really helpful for teaching reading to children who are mathematical pattern thinkers..."
Predominant reading methods require students to break the complex code of English without help. This has resulted in low literacy rates and explains why many highly educated professionals cannot spell. By revealing the logical patterns underlying 98% of English words, Uncovering the Logic of English eliminates the need to guess and provides a logical solution to English spelling.
Simple answers are given for questions such as:
- Why is there a silent final E in have?
- Why don't we drop the E in noticeable?
- Why is discussion spelled with -sion rather than -tion?
As the rules unfold it becomes apparent how this knowledge is vital to reversing the educational crisis that is plaguing America. This slim volume is easy to read and accessible to parents and classroom teachers. A thorough appendix summarizes the most important concepts for quick reference.
Awards:
ForeWord Book of the Year Finalist 2012
Midwest Book Awards Finalist 2012
Independent Publishers Awards 2011
Indie Excellence Award 2011
- Sales Rank: #1098456 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Pedia Learning Inc.
- Published on: 2011-04-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .60" h x 5.90" w x 8.90" l, .70 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 200 pages
Features
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
"Uncovering the Logic of English will be really helpful for teaching reading to children who are mathematical pattern thinkers..."
--Temple Grandin author of Thinking in Pictures
"Uncovering the Logic of English" is a thoughtful guide for anyone who wants to understand language better or is looking for advice to help them teach it." --Midwest Book Review
"A gem of a book... This is a very useful book for teachers, parents and anyone interested in bringing the joy of reading to our nation's children." --Dr Reid Lyon
"The "thrust" of this book might be better described if the title was changed to The Heartbreak of English: a Logical Means of Recovery." --Retired 3M Engineer
From the Back Cover
"English is so illogical!"
It is generally believed that English is a language of exceptions. For many, learning to spell and read is frustrating. For some, it is impossible... especially for the 29% of Americans who are functionally illiterate.
- But what if the problem is not the language itself, but the rules we were taught? What if we could see the complexity of English as a powerful tool rather than a hindrance?
Uncovering the Logic of English challenges the notion that English is illogical by systematically explaining English spelling and answering questions like "Why is there a silent final E in have, large, and house?" and "Why is discussion spelled with -sion rather than -tion?" With easy-to-read examples and anecdotes, this book describes:
- the phonograms and spelling rules which explain 98% of English words
- how English words are formed and how this knowledge can revolutionize vocabulary development
- how understanding the reasons behind English spelling prevents students from needing to guess.
The author's inspiring commentary makes a compelling case that understanding the logic of English could transform literacy education and help solve America's literacy crisis. Thorough and filled with the latest linguistic and reading research Uncovering the Logic of English demonstrates why this approach should be as foundational to our education system as 1+1=2.
About the Author
Author Denise Eide is an educator, speaker, and curriculum designer. She has worked in the field of literacy instruction since 1995 and is the founder and president of Pedia Learning, Inc. Eide has worked as a teacher and parent trainer for literacy programs, taught ESL for nonprofits and at a Russian University, and began a literacy center for ESL students.
Currently, she is authoring curriculum and a follow-up book, Teaching the Logic of English to All Students, as well as speaking regularly on the importance of the Logic of English to math and science minded students. Eide lives in Rochester, MN with her husband and four children.
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
The Heartbreak of English
By Jack
Uncovering the Logic of English
Written by Denise Eidi
Reviewed - March 2011
The "thrust" of this book might be better described if the title was changed to THE HEARTBREAK OF ENGLISH: and a Logical Means of Recovery.
The Heart (the will, the intellect and the emotions) of this book will be addressed rather than the mechanics. The reason is that it was my heart that was touched first and foremost as I began to read.
Let me give a little background. I was at the L'Abri Conference 2011 held in Rochester MN (February 11 - 12) when an announcement was made that Denise Eide was available in the lobby to discuss her new book. When I found her table, stacked high with copies of her book, she was deeply engrossed in a conversation with others - so I pressed the money into her hand, smiled and strode off with a copy of Uncovering the Logic of English. A few hours later I began to read...
A deep well of pain and humiliation was tapped - with tears flowing I read on and on. Just so you know; I am a retired Electrical Engineer, I'm 70 years old and those that know me best might say I'm as tough as nails. I, like most boys, think logically and literally and we do not tolerate inconsistent rules. Try as I might, I cannot come up with a description of what I experienced as a boy in school when trying to read, write and spell. Currently I work with several young men at the Middle School and I am drawn to them because they are "gear heads" -- they have the "knack". Check out this one minute video to see what I mean... [...]
The next day I returned to Denise and her table of books. As she finished up her conversation with another visitor she turned to me, "How can I help you?" she asked. "I've been reading your book," I said. Then she looked into my eyes and "she knew." I remember very little of our conversation... At one point she asked me to write a review of her book - because I "got it" ...from the heart.
So here we go Denise Eide... I hope you like it.
Shown below are excerpts from the first 30 pages (and one from page 63). Notice the words that show up in these excerpts - misled, abandon, puzzle, stripping the power of the code, frustrations, the illiterate blame themselves, discouraged hearts, confused minds, then they lost interest in reading.
The quotes are distributed over numerous pages of the book. However, notice how powerful they are when pulled together and can be read one right after another -- the message, taken from this book, speaks deeply to me.
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This history has misled many people to believe that English no longer follows patterns ...
The keepers of this knowledge remain a few reading centers, literacy specialists, dyslexia institutes and researchers. Experts in these fields know that all children who are presented with the whole picture of English, combined with solid methods, can succeed. Nevertheless, "intensive phonics" is often taught only as a last resort to those who have the resources to hire special tutors.
Why would we abandon our young students to solve a master puzzle like English on their own?
When we teach sight words, we are effectively stripping the power of the code and asking students to memorize visual symbols for each word.
... we all have unanswered questions and frustrations with English. The difference between the literate and the illiterate is that the literate blame the problems on English, but the illiterate blame themselves.
The problem is that we cannot know what we were never taught.
Researchers have demonstrated that all children who are not severely brain-damaged are able to learn to read English when taught correctly.
Children who are skilled readers have effective brain activity patterns and rely heavily on areas of their brains related to sounds. When struggling readers attempt to read, their brains show inactivity in these critical auditory areas.
When reading is not taught correctly, many students do not make solid connection between phonograms (the pictures of the sounds) and phonemes (the sounds themselves). Instead, they seem to rely heavily on the visual center of their brain. Given the combination of the opaque nature of the English code combined with teaching methods that emphasize the visual, this is not surprising. For students who happen to be auditory or kinesthetic learners instead of visual learners, the effect can be debilitating.
Countless highly educated professionals rely heavily on spell check... Many adults need to guess multiple times... sometimes abandoning the perfect word choice due to their inability to look it up.
Most programs teach that [s] has one sound /s/.
When incomplete phonics is taught, students who think more logically and literally decode [is] and [his] as /is/ and /his/ rather than /iz/ and /hiz/.
It is important to understand that these students are not wrong; they are doing exactly what they were told to do.
Logical/literal students are our future engineers, mathematicians and scientists. ...they quickly discover that most of the S's do not say /s/. In fact, most of the letters do not sound anything like they were told. This short-circuits their logical minds. Many of these students become discouraged by English.
Most boys think logically and literally.
Logical students do not tolerate inconsistent rules.
At a time in history when our economy relies on advancements in science and engineering, we cannot afford to impair these gifted citizens by not teaching them English in a manner that respects how their minds work.
... countless professionals... If they can learn advanced mathematics, physics, chemistry, business structures, and even other languages, they can easily learn the 104 pieces that explain English.
Incomplete phonics leaves a lot of holes, discouraged hearts, confused minds, and a seemingly unlimited number of exceptions.
...good readers are actually processing the sounds one at a time... they are converting the letters on the page to sounds.
The use of intensive phonics is the only way to teach dyslexics and learning disabled individuals how to read and is the best way for everyone to learn to read.
My logically and literally minded students consistently applied the only silent final E rule I taught them - "The vowel says its name because of the E" - until they proved to themselves and to me that I was wrong. Then they lost interest in reading.
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In conclusion I encourage you to read this book and I'm sure you will come to appreciate the potential for redeeming those that are shattered and heartbroken. Then begin to place copies of the book into the hands of those that can help - parents, teachers and countless adults that "cannot know what we were never taught."
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
A Solution for Illiteracy....finally!
By Amazon Customer
Denise Eide has successfully answered the oft quoted, and false statement that "English spelling is inconsistent, illogical, and, for some, impossible." She has taken a complex subject, made it understandable, and provided a step by step process to teach ANYONE to read proficiently. There is no longer any excuse for a student schooled in America, whether at home or in a public or private setting, not to learn to read with comprehension by the time they complete first grade. There can no longer be any reason that a middle school student, or an adult who was mis-taught cannot be rescued and re-taught to read proficiently.
Who needs to read and understand and apply the irrefutable information in "Uncovering the Logic of English?"
* Professors in every college of education where elementary school teachers are being prepared to teach kindergarten, first, and second graders to read. Today, the overwhelming "philosophy" of reading instruction is based on the false and harmful belief that students learn to read the way they learn to speak. NOT SO...learning to read is a skill to be learned, just like one learns to play the piano, or the harp, or build a house. It requires a step by step set of rules that must be mastered if one is become a good pianist, or harpist, or carpenter.
* Reading "coaches" and "reading supervisors" and "kindergarten, first, second, and third grade teachers. Sad to say, the giant publishing companies in America (four of which control 75% of the textbook market) print what they think teachers will buy. They do not care that the information presented is not based on decades of research. They do not measure the methods of instruction against what works....thus, school districts spend billions on textbooks that are dutifully used by untrained, but well intentioned teachers. And so, our illiteracy rates in America continue to burgeon each year...students are placed in Special Education, or drop out of school, or are underachievers, simply because they are not taught the basic logic of the English language.
* Home School Moms, are probably the most well educated and savvy of all the teachers in America because they are not saddled with the false teaching "strategies" of whole language. There are other products being successfully used that can be used to teach a student to read, but "Uncovering the Logic of English" is one of the best, simplest to use, and most inexpensive teaching tool available today.
* Education writers in popular periodicals or news outlets need to read this book. It will provide a basis for offering "a solution" the next time another report is released noting the poor student reading achievement that has lulled Americans into a trance of inaction, and continues to plunge countless students into a lifetime of greatly limited possibilities.
* TV and Radio Talk Show hosts often pontificate about the low achievement of students in our schools, but usually offer no alternative solutions. This book offers some excellent "one liners" that can be quoted like: there are a "finite number of tools that unlock the mystery of 98% of the words in the English language. When these 104 tools are presented, all students can succeed." Or, there are "26 letters in the English alphabet, that represent 44 sounds, and there are 74 ways to spell those sounds and 30 "rules" that when applied make complete sense out of learning English. If these tools are learned, and they CAN be learned, in first grade for most, and no later than third grade for 95 % of students, then they can read what they can talk about and understand. No problem with comprehension either.
* Everyone else who cares about the unacceptable illiteracy rate in America should read this book. You will find, as I did, that there are many helpful, interesting, and practical "rules of the road" that you will find fascinating as you explore your language.
There is no magic involved here. It is simply applying what has been known since "Hornbooks," the "New England Primer," or Noah Webster's "Blue Backed Speller" were used to teach a nation to read proficiently, with fluency and comprehension.
As my colleague Dr. Reid Lyon, Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development says: "Denise Eide has written a gem of a book that brings light to the way in which words are read and spelled. This is a very useful book for teachers, parents and anyone interested in bringing the joy of reading to our nation's children."
Dr. Robert W. Sweet, Jr.
President
The National Right to Read Foundation
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
The secrets that the reading professionals charge for!
By marshck
I met Denise Eide at a convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, last year. My then 8yo son had just been diagnosed with dyslexia, and was meeting weekly with a professional tutor. My older children had learned to read without much effort, but weren't the greatest spellers, and after all the upheaval, I was frustrated with the reading curriculum to which we had been so faithful. I felt like it had failed us! I went to Denise's seminar about teaching wiggly children, and I sat in the back of the room, scribbling furiously, trying to write down every word she said. I couldn't believe that I had found a book that taught everything that our (very expensive!) private tutor was teaching! I ended up purchasing not only Uncovering the Logic of English, but the whole Essentials curriculum, which I am now using successfully with my 7yo, and we are beta testing the soon-to-be-released Foundations curriculum with my 5yo.
Uncovering the Logic of English is not a long, heavy, textbook that feels overwhelming to look at. It's much more like a concise, readable handbook. I had to slow myself down because I wanted to absorb everything at the first sitting! The hard copy of the book that I purchased at the convention is underlined, marked up and highlighted, and I couldn't believe how many simple rules I had missed when I was in school.
When I spoke to her at her booth, Denise told me that this book teaches in the detailed, methodical way that struggling readers are taught, which is true to our experience with the private tutor. She said that she had always wondered why we don't teach everyone the rules and strategies that we reserve for kids who are already behind. Doesn't it make sense that if students learn the right way when they are starting out, there will be fewer who fall behind?
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