This is a continuation of my post on Gwendolyn Lavert. LINK
To a question on how she teaches High Frequency Words, Gwendolyn replied that she teaches kids to learn them by sight and patterns.
Luqman Michel
English words are not pictorial like Chinese characters and I teach my students to memorise them by rote memory. I explained what I meant by that.
How do you teach High Frequency Words? Which, where, here, who, like, there.
Note: Many teachers teach kids to memorise HFWs by sight. Then they complain kids can’t read. Why reduce an alphabetic language into a pictorial language?
How do you teach the above HFWs by patterns?
Gwendolyn then sent me a video where she narrated that she taught a kid named James to read /m//a//t/ and said he could not.
She said she did that video for another group she was working with.
The questions I wanted to ask Gwendolyn but had no chance to ask.
Why couldn’t James segment and blend the word mat?
What did those in the group she sent the video comment?
Gwendolyn
‘We need to help teachers teach children.’
Luqman Michel
How do we help teachers when we don’t know why kids like James can’t blend letters?
Can we find out the kids who will be called (at the end of grade 1) disabled readers when they enter grade 1?
Gwendolyn answered:
1st graders are given a pretext, midyear test, and end-of-the-year test. Teachers have conferences with parents. The Parents are given the results. If there are problems, the 2nd diagnostic test will reveal it.
The kindergarten data can identify deficiencies. The 1st grade teacher can use this data and compare it to the 1st grade pretext.
I can talk about this more tomorrow.
Luqman Michel
You asked what I think of the video. I know his problem. Are you willing to think about what I have to say?
Gwendolyn
Absolutely
After the above, she deleted all our conversations and blocked me on social media.
This has happened to me numerous times on social media. They block me when they cannot answer questions.
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