Introduction

Author: Alicia Gonzalez Opazo, Teacher in reading-writing of the General Basic Education

The "Light" System outlines an entire conceptual revolution and methodologies in the field of the reading-writing and it will force to revise principles, postulates and models in this field that are applied extensively with varying results.

This system presents, on the base of historical results that it produces incredible, progress, concrete and definitive solutions for successful reading and writing skills. It falls within modern framework but at the same time retains old validity in the system. The system entails teaching effortlessly and learning quickly, so much so that there have been no child or student failures of those who have tried its methodology.

"Light" is an unique and novel system in its field, because it has from its conception had total efficiency in achievements of objectives. This goes for children taught individually as well as in groups of sixty students or more. In other words, any child who has used the system since 1933 who had previously been unable to read or write has learned in an amazingly brief period of time compared to the well known traditional systems currently offered.

The system adapts to children, adolescents and adults with normal intelligence and it has been proven especially in the formal education system in more than 6000 students, including in that figure, at least 30% of children with school failures (repeating a year or more) and dyslexics, during more than seventy years. Therefore, it is a wide and successfully proven system, capable to be demonstrated and doesn't need to be proven again due to a consistently high statistic. Only its author, has a personal record of more than 3.300 qualified students that learned how to read and to write with her system. Consequently, it doesn't represent the proposal of an experimental model.

Its author, received her Elementary Teaching Certificate in 1924, at Concepción Normal School, in Concepción Chile, South America. She started to design her system in the 30 's and began to apply it in systematically in 1933, in the Chilean formal educational system. Her vast experience in the field of the reading and writing, is demonstrated in her professional career of more than 70 years. During 41 of those she only taught First Grade.

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