I saw a post in LinkedIn which said ‘practice makes perfect’.
I disagree and will give my opinion below. I believe perfect practice makes
perfect.
The reading war as pointed out by Jo-Anne Gross from Canada,
a Remediation teacher, has been going on for 45 years.
I have said in many of my posts here that kids disengage
from learning to read because they are confused. I know this from having taught
about 50 kids in over 10 years.
I will challenge teachers or professors including
professors like Andrew Johnson, Reid Lyon, Timothy Shanahan and David Boulton
as well as teachers like Jo-Anne Gross who think they are the ‘know-it –all’.
As long as these educators and others like them " latch onto their beliefs, their assumptions, their egos, their careers rather than looking very clearly at what works and what doesn’t" this reading war will continue and the illiteracy rate will remain.
Some questions I have for the above 'educators' are:
- · Has any of them actually seen kids reading in other languages with the same letters as the English language and yet are considered ‘dyslexic’ in English?
- · Has any of them actually sat down and taught disengaged students?
- · Has any of them looked at the faces of disengaged students when they can’t understand or are confused?
- · Has any of them asked these kids why they gave that ‘look’ when they were confused?
Why can’t these so called ‘educated’ people ask questions
and learn instead of turning into ostriches and burying their heads in the
ground?
Please listen to the following two videos which are from people in the Dyslexic industry. Would practicing phonemes this way make perfect?
What do you expect kids predisposed to shutting down to do
when they are taught – ‘buh-le-oo’ are the phonemes for the word blue?
‘Cuh-oh-tuh’ is coat?
Many teachers all over the world teach phonics wrongly and
then say that phonics is the problem. Only perfect practice makes perfect. (Vince Lombardi).
In my next post we will look at how phonics should be
taught.
Doing the same thing over and over again
expecting different results is insane.
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