John Corcoran’s website says the following which appears to be a copy-paste effort.
His website:
While a small subset of children can learn to read no matter how they are taught, a majority of students require explicit instruction to learn how to decode and encode the written language, skills that the human brain is not naturally wired to do.
My thoughts:
I have read this nonsense for over a decade. Teachers teach sounds of consonants with extraneous sounds (added vowel sounds) and when kids cannot decode and blend, they say they need explicit instruction to decode and encode.
This nonsense that the human brain is not naturally wired to read is what these so-called educators promote. How can I teach anyone to read Pinyin within two weeks of an hour- long lesson a day? Why are children able to read in Malay but not in English? Where did John Corcoran get this nonsense that the brain is not naturally wired to read? LINK
His website:
There is no magic pill to cure illiteracy. The only cure for illiteracy is literacy–and achieving it requires an approach aligned with science.
The Reading League defines the science of reading as “a vast, interdisciplinary body of scientifically-based research about reading and issues related to reading and writing.”
My thoughts:
Another load of nonsense. Get rid of the poison, which is the wrong teaching of sounds of consonants, and no kid will be left behind. What scientific approach is he talking about? He is promoting his wares just like most others on social media.
I dare him to show me one kid in grades one and above who can’t read at grade level and sounds out the consonants without extraneous sounds.
His website:
This body of research shows us how the brain learns to read and write. Skilled, fluent reading starts with learning how our spoken language is represented by written words and how our sounds are represented by letters.
My thoughts:
Sounds represented by consonants ought to be taught without added vowel sounds. LINK
His website:
Like so many subliterate children, teens, and adults today, I was never given the tools to unlock the code needed to access meaning from text. Despite all my efforts and desires, I had no idea how to turn written words on a page into spoken words, nor did I realize our written language was a code at all.
At age 48, I was dealt a new hand. When I received explicit, multimodal reading instruction and finally learned how to read and write, the world was opened up to me.
My thoughts:
If John is serious about reducing illiteracy should he not be writing specifically why he could not read until the age of 48? This question also applies to David Chalk who said he started reading at 62. LINK
His website:
The dignity, the equity, that we seek for all require a highly collaborative effort to overcome the damaging inequalities that the illiteracy and sub-literacy of millions of children, teens, and adults still cause.
My thoughts:
He says one thing and does the exact opposite thing. ‘Collaborative effort’ would mean discussing this over a Zoom meeting with me. He, however, wants me to buy his three books before organising a Zoom meeting.
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