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- Sun Sep 06, 2015 3:43 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Best Method for those with Down's Syndrome
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5734
Re: Best Method for those with Down's Syndrome
Here's what I've found out about teaching reading and Down's syndrome R + P interventions (interventions based on Reading Recovery methodology + Phonological Awareness training) Phonology with Reading programme (Nuffield Foundation.Language4Reading) was a research project using an R+P intervention w...
- Fri Sep 04, 2015 4:04 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Michael Rosen webchat wednesday 2nd Sept
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16765
Re: Michael Rosen webchat wednesday 2nd Sept
Thanks Frances. Ok, probably against Mumsnet rules, but here's Rosen's mention of phonics: Thank you everyone for your messages. I fully understand that people get very agitated about this phonics question. Just to be clear. I am not against the use of phonics in teaching children to read. What I'm ...
- Fri Sep 04, 2015 3:25 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: The Reading Bug
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7252
Re: The Reading Bug
Someone has just pointed me in the direction of an article from the Sydney Morning Herald Nov. 2003. It mentions author Paul Jennings and his (then) new book The Reading Bug. Jennings admits that, whilst advocating whole language guessing strategies for everyone else's children, he taught his own da...
- Tue Jul 28, 2015 5:02 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Nursery schools have been 'colonised by the middle class',
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9006
- Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:34 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 2015 Conference videos on YouTube
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8436
Re: 2015 Conference videos on YouTube
'Twitter outrage over headteacher's EYFS comments' http://linkis.com/nurseryworld.co.uk/i1YC8 In a video interview about how St George’s School in Battersea achieves its excellent results, headteacher Janet Hilary says, ‘What is the nonsense that we play every day in the early years? I’m not saying ...
- Mon Jul 27, 2015 4:36 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 2015 Conference videos on YouTube
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8436
Re: 2015 Conference videos on YouTube
Wonderful blog post commenting on the Jan Hilary, Head Teacher St George's School, video
https://thequirkyteacher.wordpress.com/ ... video-out/
https://thequirkyteacher.wordpress.com/ ... video-out/
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 8:49 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Synthetic phonics programme for teaching Spanish
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4714
Synthetic phonics programme for teaching Spanish
A unique Spanish (Latin America) systematic synthetic phonics reading, writing and spelling programme written by Grace Vilar, from Argentina, and Debbie Hepplewhite.
http://alfabetizacionespanol.com/
http://alfabetizacionespanol.com/
- Thu Jun 11, 2015 12:36 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Poorer Children and Teacher Perception
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6864
Re: Poorer Children and Teacher Perception
Research, studying factors that predict children's reading ability, showed that in Britain the strongest predictor at age seven was the mother's level of education rather than the child's IQ (D.McGuinness Why Children Can't Read p29). As Tom Burkard explains, 'When teachers don't teach, the educatio...
- Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:51 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 'Light-touch, phonics-based check' for Y1 children
- Replies: 159
- Views: 171957
Re: 'Light-touch, phonics-based check' for Y1 children
Oh dear :sad: Head Teacher Tim Clarke writes about the phonics check. Alien words or an alien concept? https://timjumpclarke.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/alien-words-or-an-alien-concept/ Don’t get me wrong, I think phonics are an important strategy in learning to be a reader and for most children it is ...
- Sun May 31, 2015 12:40 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 'Light-touch, phonics-based check' for Y1 children
- Replies: 159
- Views: 171957
Re: 'Light-touch, phonics-based check' for Y1 children
We could always add to this thread?It might be good fun to have a thread running where we can post all the excuses the Rosenati of this world come up with to prevent little children being taught to read quickly with phonics
http://www.rrf.org.uk/messageforum/view ... 35&start=0
- Fri May 29, 2015 5:29 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Stanford brain wave study shows impact of phonics
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6381
Re: Stanford brain wave study shows impact of phonics
And there's research (2002) indicating that ''a deficit in functional brain organization underlying dyslexia can be reversed after sufficiently intense intervention lasting as little as 2 months'' Two linguistic phonics intervention programmes were used in the research. Simos, P. et al (2002). Dysle...
- Mon May 25, 2015 5:38 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: RRF 2015 conference videos & ppts.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 9005
RRF 2015 conference videos & ppts.
Debbie Hepplewhite's conference talk is now available. We'll add the others as they appear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5QT8kEQ_zU&feature=youtu.be Debbie Hepplewhite MBE FRSA opens the UK Reading Reform Foundation Conference 2015. The theme of the conference is, ' From the Rose Review to the N...
- Mon May 25, 2015 4:15 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Dyslexia not linked to eyesight, says study
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8777
Re: Dyslexia not linked to eyesight, says study
Ophthalmic Abnormalities and Reading Impairment http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2015/05/20/peds.2014-3622.abstract OBJECTIVES: To explore associations between specific learning disorder with impairment in reading (dyslexia) and ophthalmic abnormalities in children aged 7 to 9 yea...
- Thu May 21, 2015 4:46 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Prof.Willingham's book on reading
- Replies: 21
- Views: 24199
Re: Prof.Willingham's book on reading
There are grapheme to phoneme charts (Table3. consonants Table4. vowels) in the Letters and Sounds Notes of Guidance p25/26/27
http://www.babcock-education.co.uk/ldp/ ... did=300765
http://www.babcock-education.co.uk/ldp/ ... did=300765
- Thu May 21, 2015 8:43 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Prof.Willingham's book on reading
- Replies: 21
- Views: 24199
Re: Prof.Willingham's book on reading
Sound to print: the appliance of science http://literacyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/sound-to-print-appliance-of-science.html In this post I want to point to a fundamental, logical inconsistency in the approaches used by many specialists in the teaching of literacy here in the United Kingdom, in Aust...