Dr. Richard Selznick advice to parents - Trust your gut

 

Here is another post by Dr. Richard Selznick that I have copied in full. LINK

Don't Wait for the School's Blessings: Trust Your Gut 

Anxiety over a child’s school-based problems can start very early.

After reading The Shut-Down Learner, a mom contacted me. “My son’s drowning in in school. Do you think he could be a shut-down learner,” she asked.

After asking a few more questions, I was struck by the fact that the child in question was only six in the beginning of first grade.

“The Truth About Reading” Is Missing Truths...by Nancy Bailey (Part 3)

 

‘I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.’ –Socrates

 

Unfortunately, for most people thinking is one of the most difficult things to do.

 

Here is a comment in Nancy Baily’s blog post, by someone who is helping the director and producer.

Nora Chahbazi says         November 6, 2021 at 7:36 am

Q&A Dr. Richard Selznick

 

Here is a Tweet for which I had no answer and had to refer to my mentor. I am posting this here as it may be useful to other readers.

 

Dr. K. Metropoulos @DrKMetropoulos

Question-what if a child sees N, but the printed letter is M? Phonemic awareness won’t mean anything because they aren’t seeing the letter others see. What can I do to help?

 

Professor Pamela Snow on Literacy

Here is a paragraph extracted from Professor Pamela Snow’s blog post, and my comments.

How can a child who receives solid, teacher-guided instruction ranging across phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension and fluency be “short-changed”? Seriously?!  Many children can but dream of having these basics in place in their classroom. Having them in evidence is one thing. Having them based on robust evidence, is another thing altogether. And where is the evidence that children exposed to phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension and fluency “disengage from the learning process”? What about the possibility that systematic attention to these features might have the very opposite effect for many at-risk learners?

'So if phonics doesn't work...what then?' (The Ape)

                                                                      

                                                        

The above title is from an article by ‘The Reading Ape blog’ on April 27^th 2020, that you can find here.

It was tweeted by Dianne Murphy on 5.8.2020 in her blog ‘The Literacy Echo Chamber’

Here are a few extracts and my comments.

Coincidence or Grace

Always, I get answers to questions I think deeply about. Some will call it coincidence but I believe it is Mother Nature providing answers. This is probably what ‘The Secret’ is based on.

Yesterday while I was going through the posts in my home page in LinkedIn I came across the following which caught my eyes. But, since I had, at that time, just shared another beautiful post I decided to hold on to this till today. 

Connecting the dots

The dictionary definition of ‘connecting the dots’ is: To draw logical inferences connecting items of information to reveal something previously hidden or unknown.

Since 2010 when I first started writing my blog I have given actual solid reasons for kids disengaging from reading. Reasons for shutting down, were obtained from the kids themselves.

Discourse with Dr.Richard Selznick Part 3 – Why kids disengage from learning to read

Luqman Michel: Dr. Selznick, for our next discussion, if I may request, please ask your 'patients' one question. Ask 10 such 'patients' and let us see what they say. Please keep a record.

Ask them for the sounds of a few consonants.

Let us find out if they will add vowel sounds to consonants such as mmmm (not muh),

nnnn (not nuh), fff (not Fuh.) lll (and not Luh).

This will give us an idea as to whether they are shut-down kids or otherwise.