An educational therapist commented as follows after reading
my article on phonological awareness at
“I am not quite sure what your criticism of structured literacy instruction is--is your criticism with phonics, or with poorly done phonics?”
What I have been saying since I started my blog is that the
sounds of letters are taught wrongly in most schools around the world therefore
resulting in kids shutting down from learning to read.
Below is the episode aired by Baby TV around the world. This
is definitely not the way to teach sounds of letters. Consonants should not
have extraneous sounds added. I have
complained to Baby TV to no avail.
Please listen to the YouTube video below.
Here is a list of the consonants in the video taught
wrongly.
B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, N, P, Q, R, V, Y, Z
The above is one of two reasons about 20% of the kids around
the world shut down from learning to read. A majority of these kids are wrongly
classified as dyslexic.
They are unable to match the sounds to the words taught.
They then disengage from learning to read.
Here are a few examples of the words made by the above
letters.
If the sound of the letter B is Buh/ber, then how do you
pronounce the word bat?
Is it ber-at? (Buh-at.)
Cat, is it Cuh-at? (cur-at)
Hat, is it Ha-at?
In the next few articles, I shall post some videos on what
students in the US complained about the sounds of letters.
2 comments:
I agree. That is not phonics. The pure sounds should be taught (as per Orton Gillingham).
Thank you flos. Finally, someone who dares to write what she thinks is right.
It is the wrong teaching of pronunciation of phonemes that results in many kids seeking intervention.
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