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Comments: Lynell, There are many ways parents can help their children learn to read. My three year old granddaughter is amazingly smart. Her mother has continually worked with her. My granddaughter has always had books around her since she was born. Her other grandmother has spoken to her in Spanish since she was a baby . She loves to sing and dance. I guess I am trying to say environment and having books around can make a big difference. Since her great, grand mother is deaf, we always have the closed captions on the TV. This seems to help them learn to read faster. So a lot of research shows that one of the most important ways is to have a lot of books in the home and for the parents to read out loud to them. Much of this research is discussed at the Stephen Krashen website,
Comments: I'm not an educator, but it seems like it might help if parents read children's books to them and pointed at words. That's probably asking too much of a lot of parents. I ran across a couple of witnesses in depositions who couldn't read despite their college degrees.
Comments: Ginger, I didn't leave phonics out, I just mentioned that some people use the Whole Language Method together with phonics.
Comments: I taught with sight words too, as well as 'whole language'. We were quite strong on 'whole language' in teaching kindergarten, but we also had a strong phonics program. We concentrated on a letter a week and incorporated that letter into all subjects. You don't leave phonics out...Kathleen. I don't agree with you.. We had several sources in our curriculum for phonics, including the Peabody Phonics System which has probably been updated since I used it. This system went through consonants and consonant blends and vowels.
Comments: Ginger, There are many ways to teach reading. When I was in first grade I was taught to read by memorizing sight words on flash cards. What little phonics I learned came from my mother helping me with my homework. Many reading specialists recommend a balanced approach, including the whole language method and phonics rather than phonics alone.
Comments: You remind me of my years in Connecticut. My good friend and fellow teacher there asked me if I learned to read and spell phonetically haaaaaaaaaa!! Because of my accent she was astounded that we were taught phonetics in Texas.... Her son even ask me if wall was like y'all. I said, What do you mean? He said, "well, you just asked , Are w'all goin in one car?" haaaaa!!
Comments: I was taught to read, listen, and write phonetically. I've always understood this. I guess it was those elementary teachers that did that. Also, in music, and other languages, we had an understanding of phonics.. It's very important in Kindergarten. Kids should have an understanding of phonetics, syllables, etc.,etc, by the 3rd grade. It is ingrained in them by the 3rd Grade or should be...high school is too late.
Comments: Thank goodness for my good teachers at SOC back in the day, because I knew the difference.
Comments: Court reporters write phonetically. Worst sentence I encountered involved a fast-talking woman who was a frequent visitor to the boats in Shreeseport. "I'll go up and down the aisle at the Isle, till I'll find a machine I'll do good at. That's just at the Isle. At the others, I'll know which aisle my favorite's on." She was talking about the Isle of Capri Casino.
Comments: Homonyms are the reason English is such a hard language for the non English speaking to learn.....uh, however, OUR educators are supposed to know the language of the U S and the difference...what a shame our education system has sunk soooooo low on the food chain. On a lighter note...the rain down our way is so wonderful. Everywhere I look I see the evidence. Our little ranchette is so green, ponds filling and the animals are smiling...yes, really...smiling. Unfortunately the down pour destroyed the the beautiful azaleas in Houston.
Comments: Thanks, Larry for the comments and I figured there would be several over on the Adamson site that would remember Mary and offer a prayer in her name. Every prayer helps us all. All the UNT comments were interesting, weren't they? I might add a note to the 3 Penny Opera. I know that MMM sang and played his guitar on "Mac the Knife". I don't know if he did anything else in that opera or not.. I read that he will be in Austin on March 17th at a club. That's during the SXSW thing that's grown to thousands of people now. It's either the Broken Spoke or The Saxon Pub...Can't remember which..?
Comments: Ginger, thank you for posting the information about Mary McCord on the Adamson Web Sight. My wife an I will certainly keep Mary in our prayers. I do remember a while back seeing on this Guestbook that you, Wesley Methodist friend Bob Clifton and others were writing about Mary and her health problems and saying a prayer for her then. I enjoy your Guestbook; you are a good bunch of caring people. Of course I do remember some of you from Harrell Budd and Boude Storey. Also, being a North Texas grad some of the recent comments have brought back some good memories.
Comments: The story about the sign was on Channel 8 news. I would hope that someone was embarrassed by it, if it's the real deal -- and it appears to be.
Comments: John, English teachers would call "brake" and "break" homonyms, words that are pronounced the same but are spelled differently. I didn't notice what the sign said because when you mentioned "photo shop " I kept trying to figure out what was in the two little pictures.
Comments: There's only one picture Kathleen and it's of the SOC sign..That has been up on Oak Cliff Boomers for 2 days.. All kinds of outrageous comments..over that sign.
Comments: Oh my! But really, I am not surprised. Indicative!
Comments: Kathleen, we are supposed to be observing the spelling error. Can you detect it?
Comments: John, Bill, I can't tell from your pictures what I am suppose to be looking at especially in the top picture. Would you please tell us what we are suppose to be seeing.
Comments: Unfortunately, JS, it was the real deal. Saw the story on Channel 8 News last night. They had contacted the school and were told that it had happened, but had been corrected.
Comments: I'm not sure of the source of the following pic, but it was brought to my attention on Facebook today. I find it disturbing on a number of levels. Hopefully, it is some "PhotoShop'd" prank. 
Comments: Glad to hear they are doing fine.. I love New Mexico,but have never been to Hobbs. Thanks for the info..Have a great weekend. It's pretty in Memphis..today. Rain expected later this weekend or next week. 
Comments: Ginger: I just heard back from Randy and he said that Mary and Jim are still married and do still live in Hobbs, NM. Jim is retired but he thought Mary was still in education. Randy said that he and Jim have actually gone on several fishing trips over the last 20 years and stay in touch. Randy and Jim graduated from SOC in 1961 and neither of them have been back for a reunion.
Comments: Thanks, Sharon. I remember Mary and Judy were such good friends and they were going to 'nursing school' and then work at Charity(?) Hospital in New Orleans.. Remember that..? They were both very nice people and Mary was always friendly to me at SWB.. I will always remember that about those two friends.. They were very close back then.. It's nice to pull these memories out of our past.. Good memories.
Comments: Ginger: Mary married Jim Harris (Judy's older brother) and they lived in New Mexico. I believe Jim taught at New Mexico State. I haven't heard anything from them in over 30 years. In the mid-70's, Randy ran into them at a journalism seminar in San Antonio and they were adopting a Native American child. I have no idea what happened to them. I can check with Randy to see if he knows, because he and Jim graduated together and were in the same educational field. Mary stood next to me in the Deb line and I would really like to see her again. But she never seemed interested in coming to the earlier reunions.
Comments: I wasn't impressed with most of the sororities at Baylor or N. Texas...unless it was a 'service sorority' and I didn't have the money, either.. I was 'in service' working with 5-6 yr olds in Church Training..at 1st Baptist Dallas. Working full time, most of the time, at Southwestern Bell Telephone..Whitehall Office off Zangs..near Cliff Temple. I commuted, and thought of moving to Denton and working for the telephone company in Denton..but never made the move.. I also thought about moving to California and transferring to Pacific Bell out there. I was always jealous when MMM left Texas and moved to California..wanted to be that brave and do the same, but never was brave enough..to do it. Mary Roush...also worked at the Whitehall Office before she married.. Whatever happened to Mary..? She married a professor..back then.
Comments: I attended UNT on and off from 63-69 working my way through school. I got married in 1965 and continued to live in Denton until 1968. I commuted the last year and did my student teaching. I don't remember my language teachers. I took French at UNT. I do remember my Italian diction teacher. The inside joke between Sharon and me was something in high school. Whether I wanted to or not I didn't have the $ for a sorority.
Comments: Charlotte and Sharon, I attended NT between the years of 1963-1967. What years did you attend?. I remember quite a few students from SOC that went to North Texas. Although I was anti-sorority at the time, I was surprised how many of the SOC girls joined them, even though they weren't particularly social in high school. My husband taught Spanish and Latin during the years I attended. Could he have been your Spanish teacher, Charlotte? I would also like to say the productions of plays at NT were better than some of the productions I saw at the University of Texas while Bill attended graduate school.
Comments: Sharon, you are right THE perfect job for you! Pat and Jerry lived close to us in those final years. Now, the apartments we lived in are gone and that new athletic area is in it's place...whoa! Have you seen it? You would soooo approve! I was working at Sears part time while I went to school and I had no idea where Pat was working at that time. We were all finishing up. Terry worked on his masters while I finished. I would still be there if I could...I became a professional student switching majors every year...that drove T crazy!! ha!! As you can imagine..Spanish was NOT one of my majors!!!! (inside joke)
Comments: Charlotte: I actually did the job on two separate occasions. The first from 1966-68 and then 1971-73 (I said '70 but it was '71). The three years inbetween were spent with Randy in the Army. To this day, the best and most fun job I've ever had. As sports crazy as I am, it was great. When I left in '68, I persuaded my former roomie, Pat Vessels, to take my place while Jerry finished school. Those were indeed great times.
Comments: A fellow music student(UNT) and roommate of mine(Dallas), has posted a pict of us as Saloon Girls in the Ballad of Baby Doe Opera at UNT..1968, I believe. It's on FB.. The UNT Music School put that opera on and we (Gloria and myself) were saloon girls and part of Horace Tabor's family..Lots of fun and lots of work for weeks and weeks.. I don't know how to transfer it to this website..however... Donald Kern was the Opera Workshop Professor at that time... After that, someone opened the Baby Doe Restaurant that you could see above Stemmons. We went there after my UNT graduation. It closed later, after I had moved back to Tn. |
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