Here is my email to Professor Taeko Wydell after reading the 5 research reports she forwarded to me. I hope she will respond soon.
Dear Professor Taeko Wydell,
Thank you very much for the 5 research reports you forwarded. I read them all and have a few comments which I hope you can clarify.
In a number of the reports, you have spoken about phonological awareness as the single most potent variable in literacy acquisition.
I read the post found here by a psychology teacher, Paul Cline, who writes on ‘thoughts on teaching and learning, and teaching psychology.
What is in the article is what I have been harping on for a decade. I have said that I learned from the experts - my 'dyslexic' students -that they had disengaged from learning to read due to confusion. They could not scaffold new learning to what they had already learned earlier. They could not blend because sounds of consonants were taught with extraneous sounds.
