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Ryan Walters: “We literally used to have those little cassette tapes hooked…”

Featuring: Ryan Walters, Republican | Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction

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Fmr. Supt. of Education Ryan Walters Exposes the Education Industrial Complex | Real Talk | PragerU

Published | Video Starts at 32:43

And to your point, we know how to teach reading. We've known how to teach reading a long time. Your grandparents knew how to teach reading. We understood so clearly that We literally used to have those little cassette tapes hooked on phonics that said, hey, look phonetically you understand these key syllable, you understand how they connect together. You memorize them and then you build off of each other. That's how you learn to read. Yeah, I mean, I used to use Science of Reading. (32:43–32:52)

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Asserts that phonics-based methods were used in the past to teach reading effectively.

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