There are many Science of Reading (SoR) and Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) proponents who claim it is their way or the high-way. They keep Twitting not to teach kids to memorise the High Frequency words (Dolch Words).
They keep lying that words can be memorised only by shape.
They say that teaching letter names before letter sounds will confuse kids.
No wonder the illiteracy rate in the UK is still high as it was decades ago.
@Kathy_Rastle’s Twitter profile says:
Professor of Psychology, Language & Reading Research, Editor J. Memory & Language, President, Experimental Psychology Society
And she has 4,615 Followers
Kathy Rastle and londonjohn tweeted the following:
Londonjohn @londonjohn9 Apr 23 @Kathy_Rastle
From my experience of teaching hundreds of struggling pupils to read, I've seen they can deal with whole words in sentences as, or even before they receive phonics. Why do you say phonics is the starter motor for reading?
This is a continuation of my post found here.
27.4.2022
Today was the first 1 hour session with Jack.
I asked him to read out the sounds represented by the consonants and recorded it as shown below.
This is controversial, but as I said in the heading above I am thinking aloud.
I would define a natural process as a skill that is relatively easy to learn.
Educators on Twitter keep saying that learning to read is NOT a natural process. Pamela Snow copy pastes what others have said – ‘Reading is a human contrivance that has existed for only approximately 6,000 years (Snow, 2016)’.
The statement above ridicules the intelligence of humans. I called it an idiotic statement and a Twitter friend said, “I don't think it is productive to categorise opposing opinions as 'idiotic', especially when those positions are the generally accepted.”
On 21.4.22 a friend sent me a WhatsApp message saying that his friend, a tuition centre principal, was looking for someone to diagnose a kid whom she thought was dyslexic.
Here is her message on FaceBook:
Hey everyone! Anyone knows where we can get a child tested for dyslexia in Kota Kinabalu?
I said I cannot officially diagnose but that I am willing to check out to see if the kid is a shutdown kid.
Here are some extracts from an article by Five from five found here and my comments.
Five from five:
‘Word study will have limited success if the learner has weak letter-sound associations and/or weak phonemic awareness.’
Many ‘educators’ from the US have blocked me but I can’t recollect any from the US who have blocked me and said things behind my back. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for some Australians and the British.
Recently I created a second account on Twitter and saw the following tweets from Peter Blenkinsop from the UK.
This guy is a secondary school teacher and has never taught kids to learn to read and yet argues with me about how to teach kids to learn to read.
i. There were several emails to and from Dr.David Boulton. After the initial few emails he stopped responding to my questions. I commented on Dr. David Boulton’s LinkedIn post. He unfriended me on LinkedIn but immediately deleted the videos that were detrimental to kid that I had complained about. You may read my comments and his response at https://www.dyslexiafriend.com/2017/07/drboulton-drlyon-and-drengelmann-on_23.html#more
If he disagreed with me and blocked me why would he delete the 2 videos I had complained about? The 2 videos deleted were videos teaching consonants with extraneous sounds.
Please read the comments from my readers on the post above.
