The Science of Reading. It's a brand new thing. And guess what it's called? I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green. This episode of Right Angles brought to by the members at Bill Whittle.com. And gentlemen, it's called phonics. And funics is making a big comeback. Thanks in part to Republican legislators and the Republican governor of Tennessee,

they have mandated training in what they now call the science of reading for teachers across the state,

largely K through three third grade teachers, and some 40,000 teachers have already

been through this training for a return to what we used to say back in the day, which was

sound it out, sound it out if you're trying to figure out what a word is. And so, but the interesting thing, gentlemen,

is not the K through three instruction in phonics.

The interesting thing is a school district in Shelby County

that has decided to incorporate phonics

in high school instruction in every class.

Every class begins with 15 minutes of breaking down words so that students can understand where they come from. And that includes biology class. You know,

that sounds like a burning ship to me, man. If you have to do that every class for 15, 15 minutes, that sounds like a problem area.

I learned, obviously I learned phonics and when I came to, I learned phonics in Bermuda in British

schools.

And when I came to America and found out that they weren't teaching it, I was genuinely

I was amazed.

It's like, what do you mean?

Well, we hold up a word, right?

And then we tell you what the word means and then you make the association.

So what you have to memorize the shape of this thing?

Is that what you're doing?

You must put a caterpillar up there or some other kind of hieroglyphics.

You're telling me that that's how it works.

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