Here is a post by the Literacy Architects. On their website, they boast that they promote the use of evidence-based literacy routines in grades PreK-12.
Traditionally, high-frequency and irregular words have been taught through memorization, a method that often falls short of promoting genuine literacy skills.
My comment:
What memorisation are they talking about? Is it the same memorisation method mentioned by the Dyslexia Proponents? Many of the Dyslexia Proponents talk about visual memorisation which is absolute nonsense. LINK and LINK.
Where did these teachers learn to teach kids this way of memorisation is beyond me?
Memorizing words without understanding their underlying structure can hinder a student’s ability to decode unfamiliar words.
My comment:
What underlying structure are they talking about? Who says memorising words will hinder a student’s ability to decode unfamiliar words? What has memorising non-phonetic words got to do with reading phonetic words?
I teach my
students to rote memorise Dolch Words that are not phonetic. I also teach them
phonics so that they can decode unfamiliar words. For an explanation of rote
memorisation please read my post at LINK.
Literacy Architects:
When students learn to decode words based on their sounds and symbols instead of simple memorization, they acquire skills that extend beyond high-frequency words – setting them up to decode and encode new words independently.
My comment:
Why would we teach kids to memorise phonetic words? If we teach them the correct sounds of the letters, they will all be able to read and spell phonetically spelled words.
Literary Architects:
Identify any irregularly spelled parts in the word. For example, in the word “said,” the irregular part is “ai.”
My comment:
Where did these ‘Literary Architects’ come up with such nonsense from? If they knew that the letters in English are represented by more than one sound, they would not say such a silly thing.
I, however, teach the word ‘said’ as a Dolch word and get my students to rote memorise it as I use the word early in my lessons.
Literacy Architects:
Practice: Have students orally spell, write, and read the word.
My comment:
The above is what I mean by Rote Memorisation.
The people at Literary Architect should get a copy of Shut Down Kids and then question me.
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