Expose (Part 3)

 

                                          The above was posted on LinkedIn by Brian Vieira.

Brian Vieira  President at Scholar Skills: Science of Reading consultant, curriculum creator, speaker, and founder of T.A.G. (The Academic Gym), which helps kids overcome dyslexia by combining multisensory academic and athletic skills.

Brian:

This is the incontrovertible truth that over seventy-five years of scientific reading research has taught us:

 

Luqman Michel

Can you please educate me on how thousands of kids and adults can recite the Quran by memory?

I have never said the Lord's prayer for the past 55 years. How is it possible for me to recite it today?

I learned the alphabet and the times table by memory more than 60 years ago. Did I analyse it?

We don’t need meaning and pronunciation to remember words by sight (Luqman Michel)

                                                         

                                                  

Here is a tweet I read this morning that I disagree with.

Helen Proulx @HelenProulx 2 4.2.2024

To sum up- for a word to become a sight word, the meaning must be bonded to the pronunciation. Many words are not meaningful unless read in context (function words). It sounds an awful lot like Meaning, Structure & Visual information. (letters) are important in word reading/learning.

Luqman Michel @luqmanmichel

The following statement is incorrect.

'Words that are known by sight are recognized automatically because their spellings, pronunciations, and meanings have been stored in memory in separate but rapidly linked parts of the brain.'

Rethinking how to teach high frequency words Podcast.

 

                     Stacy Hurst, an assistant professor of reading at Southern Utah University

I listened to a podcast by some Science of Reading advocates and believe they have become desperate to promote their products. Listen to the podcast here and determine for yourself. The following are some extracts and my comments.

At minute 8.03: There is a limit as to how many words can be memorised – I heard 2,000 words.