Jeffrey Bowers flawed thoughts on phonics

The following is an extract of a post by Jeffery Bowers.

 He is a professor at the University of Bristol and researches language and memory.

Grade one kid in Australia continued

The kid who I wrote about earlier came back yesterday for his class after an absence of 4 weeks due to the Covid situation.

Responding to Jeffrey Bower's Tweet

Jeffrey Bowers is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Bristol

On 2.3.2020 I read a blog post by Jeffrey Bowers dated February 2020.

I then wrote an article and posted it on my blog which can be read here.

Helping Teachers Understand the Code (Louisa Moats)

This is a continuation of the interview of Louisa Moats by David Boulton.

Teaching Dolch words to a Grade one kid in Australia

I don’t understand why the phonics proponents are insistent upon not allowing other methods in addition to phonics that may further improve outcomes for children.  

 

Visual Memorising of frequently used words Anne Castle

On 8.5.2020 Anne Castles tweeted

Replying to @luqmanmichel and @NathanielRSwain

Louisa Moats "Reading is Rocket Science"

This is part 2 of the interview with Louisa Moats by David Boulton in 2003.

Louisa Moats and David Boulton on Consequence of unnatural overwhelming ambiguity

Here is an article by Dr.Louisa Moats on the interview by David Boulton conducted some 20 years ago.

Plasticity of the brain Dr.Jack Shonkoff

The following is an excerpt of an interview with Dr. Jack Shonkoff, Chair, National Scientific Council on the Developing Child by Dr. David Boulton almost 20 years ago.

Visual memory and reading

Visual memory is a form of memory that preserves some aspects of our senses pertaining to visual experience. We are able to place in memory visual information that resembles objects, places, animals or people in a mental image.

How to memorise Dolch words (most frequently used words)

 Edward William Dolch derived a list of the most frequently used words in the 1930s. The Dolch list includes conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives and verbs; it includes 220 words. He referred to these words as “tool” or “service” words because they are used in all writing regardless of subject matter.

‘Ending the Reading Wars’ Part 3 Frequently used words

This is a continuation of my previous post. Here is an extract from the Report by the three ladies, Kathleen Rastle, Anne Castle, Kate Nation and my comments.

Ending the Reading wars by Anne Castles, Kathleen Rastle and Kate Nation (Part 2)

This is a continuation of the report on Ending the Reading Wars by Anne Castles, Kathleen Rastle and Kate Nation.

Ending the Reading Wars by Anne Castles, Kathleen Rastle, Kate Nation

Juliet Palethorpe replied as follows in a tweet to me.

 I think you’ll find summaries of the research on reading instruction to date dispute your view.

I read the article twice and did not see anything that disputes what I had written on. I then tweeted Juliet Palethorpe asking her to please let me know exactly which of my views the article disputed but did not receive any response.

Idiots, Tribes or citizens

"There are three kinds of people in any given society.

This was first identified and supported by the founders of democracy in Ancient Greece.