Reply to Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By the time a child is in kindergarten I can’t imagine there is any harm in starting with phonemic awareness and decoding.  There is time in other subjects to get exposure to more complex language etc.

By having a strong phonemic foundation and continuing that through more advanced sound patterns the kids can read and spell unfamiliar words later.  The most common/ simple words will become “sight” words that are recalled rather than decided as the process becomes automatic.

This order of teaching would also allow for the earlier detection of dyslexia which should be remediated as early as possible (and which can be reliably identified in kindergarten).

I don’t expect all teachers to be SPED teachers, but they should know the common signs of dyslexia in struggling readers so that they can refer children for evaluation instead of losing critical time.[/quote]

Just fyi, before a child can be referred for an evaluation, it takes at least a year or more of RTI (response to intervention) before most schools will even consider an eval.  My current school won't allow anyone to even breathe the word evaluation, unless the child is an immediate critical danger to himself or others, unless the teacher has implemented several 8 week rounds of tier 2 and tier 3 RTI.  It takes a long freaking time even when the teacher is on top of it.[/quote]

There are more kids than you think who develop later.  I taught first grade (back when K was not the "new" first grade).  Many kids would lag and then take off around January.  Things would start to "click."  Sure, I like to think it was due to instruction in my class--but, honestly, sometimes it was just plain maturity and readiness.  And, yes, I did teach phonics and decoding--but, I also did a lot of language development and sight words.

As for evaluating for dyslexia in K--I'm not sure you would be able to distinguish between readiness and dyslexia at that stage.  Hopefully, a lot has been d'sone to learn more about dyslexia than when I was teaching.  I cannot tell you the number of parents who came in concerned about the reversal of "R's" and feared their kids were dyslexic.  (Reversing "R" is quite common at the age of 6-7.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics