Insistence on Research (Desakan terhadap Penyelidikan- sila lihat di bawah)

 

Insistence on Research (Desakan terhadap Penyelidikan- sila lihat di bawah)

Recently, I have wasted too much time answering questions that appear to fall on deaf ears. So, I decided to let the other parties have the last say as I am busy with other work.

In 2004, I realised that intelligent kids who were good at many things could not read in English. I browsed the Internet and found reports on kids reading in many languages but are dyslexic (could not read) in English. But there was no report on the reasons why.

I decided to research this by quitting my job and teaching kids to find out why they could not read in English.

Simple view of reading

 

Here is a tweet by Dr. Sam Bommarito that I disagree with. I have said this several times and I say it again, I have the highest respect for Dr. Sam and his blog posts but I believe he sometimes gets carried away and says things he ought not to. Here is one such tweet this morning, 30.7.2023.

Dr. Sam Bommarito @DoctorSam7

There is more to reading than just decoding (reading with your eyes). Students need to learn to read with their eyes, ears, mind and heart. That results in READING with comprehension and fluency.  Phonics first can result in creating word callers instead of readers.

Reading to your children

 

There have been debates on Twitter about reading to children. There are those who say that reading to children helps them to learn to read whilst another group says it does not.

Let us examine this. 

Notes for parents and teachers (Part 1)

 

Phonics

Is phonics still taught?

“We won’t have so many children not reading” (Dr. Louisa Moats and Dr. Nadine Gaab)

We will get back to Emily Hanford and APM Reports soon. Let us give them a day or two to comment on my post.

On 1.6.2020, Dr. Nadine Gaab with whom I had exchanged emails, in 2018, asked me to listen to a video by Dr. Louisa Moats. This was in response to my post that many kids are unable to read because they are taught the pronunciation of phonemes of consonants wrongly.

Why is it so hard to improve reading achievement?

This post is a response to what I saw on Twitter this morning by Timothy Shanahan.

His post today was;

            Why is it so hard to improve reading achievement? What aren’t we doing right?

I have made many comments on Timothy’s blog posts and he cherry picks comments he is comfortable with and ignores the others which he cannot respond to.

Reading - Another look

 

I have written about reading sometime back but have decided to write again as I believe this is  very important for all parents and especially parents with  dyslexic children.

A parent's primary responsibility in preparing a child to be a good reader is to read to the child every day, beginning early in life and continuing into his teens. I believe, my siblings and I are avid readers because my mother used to read to us every day from the time we were about 4 years old. It comes to me as no surprise that my 5 children are also avid readers because either my wife or I will read to them every day before they go to bed.

Read to your children, whatever their ages

 

Read to your children, whatever their ages

One of my readers, Heidi, made the following comment on my article entitled: - “Headmistress agrees with the advice given on dyslexia”:

Heidi wrote, “I read to my son every night since he was a baby. He grew up to be a dyslexic. He is awful with punctuation, but I never have to change his grammar or sentence structure. It is always correct. He also likes to write stories (just for years they weren't spelled right). Now, I know the reading must have really helped his correct usage of word structure, and probably his love for writing stories.”

Dyslexia - Parents role & Lesson 9

A child’s reading vocabulary and his listening vocabulary will not be the same. Though he may be able to listen and understand a lot of words, he may not be able to read those same very words when presented to him in writing. Important as it is that you teach your child to read, it is equally important to feed him information by reading to him.