Today, 14.11.24 (Malaysian time) the following was Tweeted by:
Kareem J. Weaver @KJWinEducation
I believe Reading Recovery... a program embedded in districts AND universities, is a menace. Parents have no idea this snake oil is being sanctioned, sold, and used on the children who need the most help learning to read.
I know nothing about Reading Recovery or any other reading programmes.
I don’t criticise reading programmes that anyone claims to work. Thousands of teachers successfully teach using various methods.
Why would anyone criticise the video? LINK
This is done on purpose by ‘phonetics’.
According to my post yesterday why can’t we teach using phonics and memorising High Frequency Words? Many kids shut down from learning to read when they try using phonics to sound out non-phonetic words. Parents then blame phonics saying it does not work.
The teacher in the clip does not want the kid to sound out non-phonetic words. She is teaching the kid to read using phonics and memorising high-frequency words.
Several times I requested Kareem Weaver to get a copy of my book, Shut Down Kids. If he had, he would not say stupid things like he does.
7 comments:
Here is a comment on LinkedIn and my response.
Phillip Chipping • 1st
Educator, Inventor, Writer, Lover of People (philanthropist)
8h
What's wrong?
First and foremost - her attitude and utter disrespect of the child. Abhorrent! If I saw a tutor treating my child that way I would immediately fire her and look for a new tutor. Of course that's probably not taught as part of Reading Recovery. But given that fact, and the fact that you said you don't know anything about Reading Recovery, I would personally withhold judgement until I know if this is an accurate representation of Reading Recovery in action.
But since I also know that Reading Recovery is a 3-cueing/whole language based program, which is evident in her "cues" or hints to look at how many words there are at one point, or having him guess based on the context, I believe that the whole approach is wrong. She's encouraging guessing, not reading. And she's putting words in front of him that he hasn't learned yet? Then tells him not to read it? Why did she put it in front of him? This whole video seems messed up.
No idea if he was taught to pronounce the letters the correct way...would be interesting to know.
Not sure what you mean by "how low can phonic proponents go"? This is not an example of phonics proponents argue for but the exact opposite.
I responded as follows:
Phillip Chipping This is what I like. When people comment we can then discuss and learn from each other. Ok. Her attitude may not be the best. However, that is not what I am getting at.
My basic question is similar to what religious freaks keep doing. If you want to talk about the goodness of your religion then please do and I will be all ears. But why do people condemn other religions especially when they don't know Zilch about that other religion?
So, what is Kareem Weaver trying to convey? Why does he shut up each time I ask him questions?
You said, 'And she's putting words in front of him that he hasn't learned yet? Then tells him not to read it? Why did she put it in front of him?'
She is putting the HFWs that she had taught him. She has made a flashcard of the words that she does not want him to sound out.
She did not ask him not to read. This is a complete misrepresentation of what she did. She is reminding him not to sound out HFWs.
Why don't you sound out letters of words such as with, then, there, out, which so that we may all be educated by you?
She puts that in front of him (the flashcard) to jolt his mind and it works.
Luqman Michel Author
Tutor of shut down kids
5h
Phillip Chipping You said, 'Not sure what you mean by "how low can phonic proponents go"? This is not an example of phonics proponents argue for but the exact opposite.'
This is what phonics proponents are doing. They don't want teachers teaching kids to memorise the HFWs.
My contention is why not use a hammer when necessary instead of insisting on a spanner for everything?
Read my first lesson on 'Teach your Child to Read' available free on my blog and see how I have incorporated both phonics and HFWs.
The teacher in the clip is teaching HFW by visual memory which I disagree with but that is not the issue here.
I teach by getting to rote memorise the HFWs which I think is more effective.
Thank you again for these rebuts. I wish more teachers here would do the same.
I should start by saying I have immense respect for Kareem Weaver and what he’s accomplished for reading advocacy and teaching kids to read. Have you see The Right to Read documentary? The heart of the question for me is: does the teacher primarily want students to use guessing as a strategy or do they encourage attending to the letter-sound correspondences. That I believe is the biggest issue with Reading Recovery, though I was never trained in it.
I said that I didn't know anything about Reading Recovery. However, I have read that Reading Recovery teachers teach phonics + memorising of High Frequency Words.
That is not guessing.
I have tweeted Kareem Weaver numerous times and he does not respond. He has an ego problem.
I missed replying to your question 'Have you seen The Right to Read documentary?'
Yes, I have and I listened to it carefully and asked several questions that were not answered. Here is Part 1.
I look forward to your comments on this post at
https://www.dyslexiafriend.com/2023/06/right-to-read-part-1.html#more
Savannah Goh. read part two at https://www.dyslexiafriend.com/2023/06/right-to-read-movie-review-part-2.html
Please give your thoughts.
This guy Kareem Weaver has never answered any of my questions on Twitter.
Ask him to have an open dialogue with me and then tell me that you have immense respect for someone who does not answer direct question.
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