With so many different phonics programs available, it makes sense for you to wonder: “Why choose Reading Horizons?” Well, there’s a good answer for that.
Here is Reading Horizons Teacher Trainer, Shantell Berrett, answering what makes Reading Horizons different from other phonics programs:
After hearing her answer, I started thinking about the value of simplicity. I went to my computer and did what anyone with a new interest would do, pulled up a Wikipedia page on the term “simplicity.” Here are some excerpts from that page highlighting the value of “simple” ideas:
- The concept of simplicity has been related to truth.
- All things being equal, the simplest theory is the most likely to be true. (Occam’s razor - law of succinctness)
- In the context of human lifestyle, simplicity can denote freedom from hardship, effort or confusion.
- The simplifying of one's life in order to focus on things that are most important and disregard or avoid things that are least important.
Wikipedia also led me to its WikiQuotes page about simplicity:
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
- Frédéric Chopin
“It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.”
– Antoine de Saint Exupery
“Something is simple or complex depending on the way we choose to describe it.”
– Herbert Simon
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed to be simple is to be great.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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