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- Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:23 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: UKLA 'Literacy', Vol. 42 No. 2
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3867
We must, must have at the heart of learning to read the pleasure that is reading. Otherwise, why bother? I think the non-readers at the start of 'Can't read, can't write' might well supply reasons to bother. One that stuck with me was the satisfaction the lady felt on being able to read packets in ...
- Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:09 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 10 reasons why beginning readers should only use decodables
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7067
11. In my experience, children are encouraged by their teachers to use their phonic skills and sound out and blend words but are given ORT or other non-decodable books. How can a child know which words are easily decodable? 12. Teachers complain that children sound out all words eg d a r k n e s s. ...
- Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:05 am
- Forum: Purely Practical Posts -no politics!
- Topic: Automatic blending of CVC words
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4538
Thanks Maizie. It's quite a lengthy thing to explain and I posted in a bit of a hurry. What I'm hoping for is that these children can see any CVC word, familiar or not, and read it straight off, as most of their peers can. Is this just too much to hope for? As far as I'm aware, these children do not...
- Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:10 pm
- Forum: Purely Practical Posts -no politics!
- Topic: Automatic blending of CVC words
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4538
Automatic blending of CVC words
I could really do with some advice on this. I work with several Y2 children who are still laboriously sounding out most CVC words before blending them. I don't think it's because they think I only want them to do this as, if it's a word they already know or have seen a few times that session, they w...
- Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:11 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Down's Syndrome children: whole-word or SP?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4439
- Thu May 01, 2008 3:48 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: The 'aw' sound
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9754
- Thu May 01, 2008 11:40 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: The 'aw' sound
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9754
Ken thanks for clarifying 'cough'. I was puzzled, forgetting 'the corf that carried him orf'! slough pronounced 'sloo' rings a bell from somewhere in a US accent. (Don't jump yet, I know there's no one US accent - see below.) I'm thinking of perhaps 'Slough of Despond' rather than 'slew the giant'. ...
- Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:33 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Are sight words taboo?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 20709
- Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:26 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Dombey attacks synthetic phonics and advocates 'guessing'
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5080
In general we're not bad at teaching children to read; but we're markedly less successful at teaching them to like it. Ruth Miskin and others who insist on synthetic phonics as the one route of entry into reading have little to offer to address this real problem. "Real problem?" We really should ma...
- Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:02 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: The 'aw' sound
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9754
- Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:39 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: The 'aw' sound
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9754
- Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:30 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Dombey attacks synthetic phonics and advocates 'guessing'
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5080
Off we go again... Rhyme and analogy for should, would could? That's three words taken care of then. I've been working hard with children still getting to grips with easy blending of CVC words. I haven't even begun to count the number of words open to them with just the simple code of the basic alph...
- Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:45 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 10 sounds of 'ea'
- Replies: 54
- Views: 23511
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:57 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Is the government slowly suffocating adult education?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4299
I'm really grateful that our open studies music course will be able to continue next year. Our tutor manages to keep the form filling to a minimum but she still has to do 'reports' at the end of each module. We participate in 'assessed rehearsals' and learn a little about the composers and period. T...
- Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:54 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Reading First
- Replies: 45
- Views: 18341