About 20% of children disengage from reading when they are
confused. These are the children spoken about in many of the articles in
Children of the Code. One such quote is from Nancy Hennessy who was president of the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) from 2003-2005.
“……even if we settle on a middle number,
let us say 10%; that still leaves a lot of children who are not dyslexic, whose
brains are not wired any different way, who have reading difficulty.
We are not supporting the learning of our
teachers in order for them to do what we are talking about
We still don’t have the capacity nor the
will to change what it is that we are doing with reading early on and so consequently
unless we make those significant changes we are not only going to lose the
dyslexics but I am also concerned about these other children; these other
struggling readers.”
Most of the “These struggling readers” stated by Nancy above
are kids who disengage from reading because they are confused.
I have posted videos here and in LinkedIn on the wrong
way of teaching phonics. I hope someone here will take the initiative to
disallow such videos from being made available to the children around the
world. (See note below) Kids who watch these videos even before they go into
kindergarten will have disengaged from learning to read long before entering
grade school. AND then we will label these kids as stupid and lazy and classify
them as dyslexics.
Here is one of many videos from the internet which I believe
is what kids should listen to. The teacher here does not add vowel sounds to
consonants. No kid will disengage from reading if phonics is taught in this
manner.
I disagree with teacher Belk saying that each vowel has two
sounds. Each vowel has more than two sounds as mentioned in my posts. This is
an important point as when the kids predisposed to shutting down come across
vowel sound that are different from the two sounds taught to them, they may
shut-down. However, if sounds of
alphabets are taught this way all kids will learn to read well.
The word ‘fox’ was introduced in the above video and this
was one of the words my student refused to read out loud as she had been taught
the sound of the letter ‘f’ as ‘fuh’. As such, to this kid the sound of the
word ‘fox’ should have been ‘fuh-ox’.
You may read about this in my blog at: http://www.dyslexiafriend.com/2010/02/unlearn.html
Please read the comments when you view the above post.
Note: The video by teacher Belk was Published on Feb 18, 2012 but has only 1,486,243
views.
The video where phonics is taught wrongly and will
definitely disengage kids predisposed to shutting down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgJ0dJUfglQ
Was published on Jul 29, 2015
and as at 5th August 2017 there were 5,414,893 views
I just checked the web-site above and saw the following: "Endless Reader FULL Level 1..." The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement.
The following you tube has also been terminated,
I like to believe
that these two videos have been terminated because of my complaints. Excuse me
for patting myself on my back. I am elated.
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