Jerry Von Kroff - my Facebook discussion (1)

 

Monday, September 6, 2021

Does More Money Buy Better Public Education (1)

Here are extracts from part 1 (this should have come before part 2) and my comments.

Some of these folks are experienced educators.  But many of them derive their beliefs from the newspapers, from pundits and commentators, from business interests and various other interest groups.

My comment:

Jerry Von Korff Facebook discussion with Luqman Michel

 

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Does More Money Buy Better Education--Minneapolis edition(2)

Luqman Michel

Jerry Von Korff, do you know what you mean by students with dyslexia? Would you like to discuss this matter openly right here?

Note: This post is to ensure that my comments will not be deleted like it has been on many of the FB comments I have made. Bethany Lee, a dyslexia advocate, is the latest to delete all my comments and her responses from FB.

 

The Shameful practice of many Americans

Here is a post I had written on 3.8.2020 which I had not published.

 

One of the most shameful practices of many American Educators is the fact that they bury their heads in the ground when they are cornered by questions they cannot respond to.

Reid Lyon and David Boulton of the Children of the Code fame are just two of the many.

My comment on David Boulton's 'Children of the Code' was deleted after a few months.

 How can anyone accept the stupid statements made by David Boulton such as the following:

Children of the Code avoided advocating solutions so as not to be dismissed as having an agenda other than learning deeper into the challenge.

It has been 15 years since the project started and how much longer do they need?

Timothy Shanahan ignores comments which he cannot respond to. He wants empirical evidence to prove that consonants should not be taught with extraneous sounds.
That sounds really silly coming from a so-called educator. Read one of many posts on him here.

My email to IDA Ontario in 2018 and my tweet to Alicia Smith on 30.8.2021

 

Alicia Smith @AliciaFromTiny.

She is the current President, International Dyslexia Association – Ontario.

Her twitter account says: ‘This is my personal account, thoughts and opinions posted are my own.’

Minnesota Public Schools (MPS) ACADEMICS ADVOCACY GROUP

 

You may find the MPS academic advocacy group website here.

I read 3 of the articles on the website and wonder why the Americans keep saying the same things again and again and expect different results.

'End the bickering on how to teach' Dr. Sam Bommarito

 

Dr. Sam Bommarito article here is worth reading.

Here is part of a paragraph from his article.

There is no one size fits all answer when it comes to teaching reading. What works with one child/group of children, does not always work with another. If all sides in the dialogue about how to best teach reading would be willing to admit that their favorite method(s) have limits and limitations and that they could sometimes use a little help from methods they usually don’t use, I think the current dialogue around how to teach reading could become more productive. There are a number of things we can and should do to end the bickering (as opposed to dialogue) that has all too often dominated our conversations about reading.

Lesson 23 - Word family 'ip'

 

For those who are new to my YouTube channel, please read the preface and notes in this blog. 

 Here is the YouTube video link for lesson 23.

https://youtu.be/0owADQEoj2U 

 

Lesson 22 - Word family 'ill'

 

Here is the YouTube link for lesson 22.

https://youtu.be/XqbEwF_YPT4 

Lesson 21 - word family 'ell'

 

Teach your child the word family 'ell'. 

With this family word your child should be encouraged to read new words containing the word family 'ell'. Please refer to lesson 20 which describes how to teach new words.

Here is a link to my YouTube channel.

 https://youtu.be/IdcVrVVahkc 

 

 

 

 

Lesson 20 - word family 'ee'.

  

Teach your child to learn to read new words using all the word families we have learned to-date.

Here is the link to my YouTube video for lesson 20.

https://youtu.be/c7OMUxp05yE 

 

 

Lesson 19- ing

 

In this lesson we introduce word family 'ing'.

Lesson 18 - ay

 

Digraphs can include a combination of consonants or vowels.

The combination 'ay' is a digraph.  

Orthographic memory Dr. Kathryn Garforth and Jennifer Buckingham (part 4)

The following is from the conversation between Dr. Kathryn Garforth and Jennifer Buckingham.

Sight words or one that has been memorized based on its shape vs the word that has been orthographically mapped. Because I see in many classroom teachers sending home Dolch words and expect kids to memorise them. Let us talk about why that is not the best approach and how memorizing a word is different from mapping it orthographically in your brain (Kathryn Garforth).

‘How we remember words…’ (David Kilpatrick)

 

Today, 29.12.2020, I listened to a YouTube video post by WalshUniversity Literacy Initiative on Dr.Kilpatrick’s talk re: "How We Remember Words, and Why Some Children Don't"

I decided to ask a question as follows and hope to receive a response.

Orthographic Mapping – ‘A’ for apple. – Kathryn and Jenifer conversation (Part 3)

Somehow NONSENSE makes a lot of sense to most of the people around the world.

Let us look at the absurdity of the following statements by the two ‘educators’.

‘A’ stands for apple but changes a little bit depending on the letters before it or after it. So, it doesn’t sound exactly the same. The idea of a phoneme is a construct that is not true. (Dr. Kathryn Garforth)

It’s a simplification to think about phonemes as having a single sound, however our brains are able to cope with that slight variability in that co-articulation that happens according to the consonant or vowel that’s on the other side. (Jennifer Buckingham)