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- Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:45 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: digraph, trigraph, tetragraphs
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9932
Re: digraph, trigraph, tetragraphs
A la Tickell, I wouldn't call <eigh> a tetragraph. I'd call it a four-letter spelling, which does 'as it says on the tin' and is accessible to many, if not all, parents. However, the spelling <eigh> is, as you suggest, used mostly to represent the sound /ee/ in names of people and place names.
- Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:32 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Why Our Education System isn't Working
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7290
Re: Why Our Education System isn't Working
Hi Ken,
You'll find it here: http://kitchentablemath.blogspot.co.uk/
And, as a treat, the latest posting, a tribute to Palisadesk postings! It turns out her skills extend into the domain of the veterinary!
Best,
J
You'll find it here: http://kitchentablemath.blogspot.co.uk/
And, as a treat, the latest posting, a tribute to Palisadesk postings! It turns out her skills extend into the domain of the veterinary!
Best,
J
- Sat Apr 27, 2013 2:51 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Why Our Education System isn't Working
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7290
Re: Why Our Education System isn't Working
When I clicked on your link, Geraldine, the piece came up as 'not found'.
However, this one did: http://pragmaticreform.wordpress.com/ and it looks as if there's more good stuff to come over the next few weeks.
J
However, this one did: http://pragmaticreform.wordpress.com/ and it looks as if there's more good stuff to come over the next few weeks.
J
- Wed Apr 03, 2013 3:52 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Year 1 Phonics screening check
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13309
Re: Year 1 Phonics screening check

- Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:41 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Year 1 Phonics screening check
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13309
Re: Year 1 Phonics screening check
I've just tried to post a reply to the UKLA survey but wasn't allowed to because I'm not a registered member. This is what I wrote: During the last year, we, at Sounds-Write, have trained over a thousand teaching practitioners. In that time we have not heard a single objection to the phonics screeni...
- Thu Mar 28, 2013 2:01 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 'Perceptual reading'
- Replies: 51
- Views: 26456
Re: 'Perceptual reading'
Do you know which issue of the New Scientist, Susan? I keep all the back copies and would like to read it.
- Sat Mar 23, 2013 1:11 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Ben Goldacre's report on evidence-based education
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8163
Re: Ben Goldacre's report on evidence-based education
A doctor has written and defended a thesis, so has been assessed on his/her competence to collect and evaluate evidence. I don't get the impression that all UK teachers have that capability. I'd have thought you'd be giving your wholehearted assent to Goldacre's paper, Ken. Other than in small, iso...
- Tue Feb 05, 2013 8:57 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: TES thread: PM benchmarking, book bands and phase 5 phonics
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1893
Re: TES thread: PM benchmarking, book bands and phase 5 phonics
I went to the forum with the intention of answering the query but decided that there was nothing to add - you nailed it, Debbie :grin: . Sadly, many teachers are so tightly bound by their own bands, they can't see the chasm between what they are teaching in their phonics lessons and the books they a...
- Sat Feb 02, 2013 12:43 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Sounds~Write training report available to view
- Replies: 52
- Views: 20058
Re: Sounds~Write training report available to view
Not in the spirit of discord, but 'just saying'; you'd never get the Sounds~Write people to change! They use < > to denote 'sounds' and it would mean a massive rewrite of all their detailed and comprehensive training materials and confusion among S~W trained teachers I agree that it would be helpfu...
- Sat Feb 02, 2013 12:28 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Sounds~Write training report available to view
- Replies: 52
- Views: 20058
Re: Sounds~Write training report available to view
There is only one Ofsted inspector and he has now seen all the trainings in the catalogue. As I believe that we were one of the first to be inspected, it has fallen to us to be monitored again. The inspector came to see Day 1 and Day 4, on which we teach polysyllabic words and spellings strategies. ...
- Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:01 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Is Poverty Destiny?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 37287
Re: Is Poverty Destiny?
Just saw this http://gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com/2013 ... t-destiny/ tweeted by Diane Ravitch.
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 1:44 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Improving reading comprehension
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2955
Re: Improving reading comprehension
Frances, the best thing by a mile I've ever come across on the subject of comprehension instruction is Cathy Collins Block, Linda B. Gambrell and Michael Pressley's Improving Comprehension Instruction (2002). It has everything.
- Fri Dec 21, 2012 11:03 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Philosophy paper: A monstrous regimen of synthetic phonics
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9182
Re: Philosophy paper: A monstrous regimen of synthetic phonics
You're right, Debbie. No mention of PI by name and, of course, no mention of S-W. But we're used to that, aren't we? I know, it doesn't make it any the less galling sometimes :roll: As a matter of fact, the authors deal with THRASS in chapter 13, though it doesn't come out too well. A study comparin...
- Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:25 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Philosophy paper: A monstrous regimen of synthetic phonics
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9182
Re: Philosophy paper: A monstrous regimen of synthetic phonics
I don't imagine that Andrew Davis will have it all his own way at Durham. Dr David Waugh, Director of Primary ITT Programmes, has just published Teaching Systematic Synthetic Phonics in Primary School with Wendy Jolliffe of Hull University and Angela Carrs, also at Durham. I've just finished chapter...
- Fri Dec 21, 2012 11:16 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Sid naps in a pit: making a din about phonics
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5427
Re: Sid naps in a pit: making a din about phonics
Hi Debbie, I don't think it would be a good idea for me to go back to the thread given that the person who asked the question was the very one (Northernheckler) whose hackles are likely to rise when they read another comment from me :roll:. It might also invite another intemperate response (from Nh)...