Seuss killinng phonics


	Seuss killinng phonics

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/934a154f-5352-46a4-b7f4-9d40d7785e81/F5F1B073-88FD-4452-9DAA-EC34C8D08FD5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Cat_in_the_Hat&oldid=212745283" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Cat_in_the_Hat&oldid=212745283" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Cat_in_the_Hat&oldid=212745283"><P>In an interview he gave in <I><A title="Arizona (magazine) (page does not exist)" class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arizona_%28magazine%29&action=edit&redlink=1">Arizona</A></I> magazine in June 1981, Dr. Seuss claimed the book took nine months to complete due to the difficulty in writing a book from the 223 selected words. He added that the title for the book came from his desire to have the title rhyme and the first two suitable rhyming words that he could find from the list were "cat" and "hat". Dr. Seuss also regretted the association of his book and the "look say" reading method adopted during the <A title="John Dewey" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey">Dewey</A> revolt in the 1920s. He expressed the opinion that <I>"... killing <A title="Phonics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics">phonics</A> was one of the greatest causes of illiteracy in the country."</I></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F5F1B073-88FD-4452-9DAA-EC34C8D08FD5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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