The
following is the departing message from David Boulton to me on LinkedIn in 2017.
Dr. David
Boulton:
I have been bombarded over the years with people 'certain' that if only their way was adopted (spelling reform to instructional method) everyone would be great readers. I don't have the time or interest in being the object such people want to stroke themselves with. I am clear and on the record for decades re what is the reason children struggle to read English. If as you say you have been through my work you'd know that. I appreciate that you help people. I don't want to engage further with you. I am not interested in being a platform for self aggrandizing. I wish you all the best.
After his message above he disconnected from me on LinkedIn.
As you will
all have noted, I have never ever mentioned to him, nor to anyone anywhere else,
of any specific way to be adopted.
There are
thousands of teachers all over the world who are successfully teaching
so-called dyslexic kids to read using various ways. There is no such thing as one method or way to
teach.
However,
I am the only person in the world who has been harping, since 2010, on how not to teach pronunciation of phonemes.
You cannot
teach buh-luh-oo and say that is how to sound out blue. Thank Goodness that
most students, somehow learn to read.
Many smart
kids shut down as they simply cannot understand how buh-luh-oo can sound out
the word blue.
How would
you pronounce the following word?
‘Cuhohtuh’
Can you
recognize that word? It is an English word given to us by Liz Dunnon. You can
hear it in a YouTube video here: (You can hear it under skill 2 between
minutes 1.48 and 3.05 in the video.)
I had
written several emails to Liz to take down that video but I believe she does
not understand that it is such teachings that cause kids prone to shutting down
to disengage from learning to read.
I believe
that David Boulton does not know the seriousness of this matter either.
1 comment:
Until these Caucasians, come down from their high horses, and start listening to those from countries where they speak a few languages other than English the Reading Wars will continue.
If David Boulton and Timothy Shanahan cared to listen many kids would have been speared leaving school as illiterates.
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