Controlled by Funding Sources (Part 2)

 

Has the National Research Council hoodwinked the educators and parents?

The National Research Council in their book ‘Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children’ on page 22 says:

‘There are 3 sounds represented by 3 letters in the word “but” but each sound alone does not refer to anything, and only the middle sound can really be pronounced in isolation; when we try to say the first or last consonant of the word all by itself, we have to add a vowel to make it a pronounceable entity.’

What nonsense is this?

How did a 6-year-old kid in Lagos pronounce the letters without adding a vowel sound to consonants? LINK

How did this lady pronounce letters without adding a vowel sound to consonants? LINK

Ethan Lynn, PhD, and Reading Horizons

As mentioned in my blog post yesterday, Ethan said that Reading Horizon teaches the word cat as follows:

At Reading Horizons, we use successive blending to eliminate the extraneous sounds often accompanying stop consonants.

For example, 'cat' would be reduced to 'ca' and then made into 'cat'. The vowel following the consonant necessarily eliminates those extra sounds.

What nonsense is Ethan Lynn and Reading Horizons disseminating to the masses?

Examining Martin Bloomfield/Julian Elliott interview (Part 2)

 

"The task is not to see what has never been seen before, 

 but to think what has never been thought before about 

                           what you see every day."

-- Erwin Schrödinger (1887 - 1961)

I listened to the whole interview of Julian Elliott with Martin Bloomfield which spoke about things everyone knows. Where is the solution to reducing illiteracy? LINK

A baffling question from Ethan Lynn

 

Here is another part of the LinkedIn thread by Ethan Lynn

Ethan Lynn, PhD Author Illiteracy Eradicator | Presenter | PD Specialist | Published Researcher:

Luqman Michel, this is an interesting perspective. Are you saying, it's best not to teach it at all if it's not done right?

Ethan Lynn was referring to teaching sounds represented by letters.

When does one size fit all

                                                     

On 6.10.23 in a Twitter thread Dr. Sam Bommarito Twitted the following:

Dr. Sam Bommarito @DoctorSam7

One of the many reasons I speak out against one-size-fits-all solutions is that different children really do need different things. What works with one does not always work with another. Many adults who were Dyslexic as a child have found ways to succeed. One of my favorite stories along that line is the story of this mother and daughter team, who saw the strengths in themselves and shared with others how to use those strengths. They replace "succeeding despite of Dyslexia" with "succeeding because of Dyslexia". 

Dr. Sam keeps saying the same things over and over because, as I have said several times, the mind of most people is like the human egg. 

Tennessee Foundational Skills

 

In preparation of an article to post on my blog I googled ‘Phonics Luqman Michel’ and saw more than 50 entries including the following.

I shall write more on this in the next few days but meanwhile parents who have children in kindergarten and prekindergarten are urged to read the material found here.

https://openedx.tneducation.net/asset-v1:TDOE+fs101+2020YL+type@asset+block@Final_GPK_U6_TN_Foundational_Skills_TS.PDF

 The highlights in bold is my doing.

Letter sounds by a kid from Lagos

 The above video is of a kid who is in preschool sounding out the sounds represented by letters. I have a few more such videos.