Dear Dr. Groff, Let's see if I can answer your question. I will tell you that there are notable people who have worked with inner city children with great...
Dear Janis: Thanks for your prompt reply to my prior email. However, I cannot agree with your assumption that black and Hispanic students have certain genetic...
patrick groff
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Mar 2, 2006 8:32 am
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Guys, Try the book, Born to Talk at Amazon. It might help with these discussions. Carol...
Carol Murphy
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Mar 2, 2006 1:49 pm
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Lord have mercy! Patrick, sometimes you read things that are simply not there! I never, ever said that minority students have genetic defects that caucasian...
Dear Janis: Do I correctly assume that the "factors" to which you refer in your comments below are not genetic ones, i.e., ones that children are born with, as...
patrick groff
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Mar 3, 2006 5:40 am
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I will be out of the office from 03/03/2006 to 05/03/2006. I will respond to your message when I return....
Julie ONG
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Mar 3, 2006 7:24 am
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Patrick, No, I do not conclude that dyslexia is "always" a result of the environment. I have experience with a charter school that has faithfully used both...
Dear Janis: Thank you for your prompt and illuminating reply to my prior email. I do have a further question about your point of view. Does your experience as...
patrick groff
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Mar 4, 2006 2:33 am
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Patrick, What part of this discussion is confusing? I have kept most all of the emails I sent on literacy and speech/language development. Shall I resend...
Carol Murphy
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Mar 4, 2006 3:58 am
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Dear Carol: Are you asking "what part" of your "sponsored links" is "confusing"? I think I have lost touch as to what is the purpose of your email. Patrick...
patrick groff
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Mar 4, 2006 7:23 am
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Dear Patrick, For my answer to your question, I would refer you again to this excellent interview found on Children of the Code. ...
I am an Elementary School Teacher in California. I am interested in working primarily with students who struggle with learning to read. I am planning to...
Dear JS: As a longtime teacher and reading teacher educator, I know of only one school of education on the West coast that correctly informs elementary school...
patrick groff
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Mar 5, 2006 4:39 am
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In a message dated 3/4/2006 11:39:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, pgroff@... writes: Dear JS: As a longtime teacher and reading teacher educator, I...
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Mar 5, 2006 2:53 pm
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I have been reading "The Teaching of Reading and Spelling." Great stuff. I want to continue my education so I can work with struggling readers, either as a...
Is the University of Oregon the same institution where the Direct Instruction guy, Zev Engelman works? Does he teach in that masters program? The textbook for...
In a message dated 3/5/2006 11:12:22 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, jrspeka@... writes: I have been reading "The Teaching of Reading and Spelling." Great...
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Mar 5, 2006 4:38 pm
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In a message dated 3/5/2006 11:34:32 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, jrspeka@... writes: Do people on this group feel that dyslexia is a real condition, or...
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Mar 5, 2006 4:46 pm
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Hi, Jeanette, We certainly are in need of more people with your desire to help struggling readers! I need clarification on one issue in order to give you the...
I suppose I do teach rules. "No English word ends in q u v j i." I use them to help pupils make sense of letter arrangements, and as a basis for choosing the...
Mona
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Mar 5, 2006 7:56 pm
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... Showing "was" as irregular may reflect the fact that most Americans pronounce it "WUZ." (I never heard it pronounced "WOZ" till I went to the UK). I don't...
In a message dated 3/5/2006 2:56:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, catphonics@... writes: “No English word ends in q u v j i.” Iraq tabu Cav haj...
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Mar 5, 2006 8:55 pm
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Don mentions "haj" (which some English-language dictionaries spell ... Why on Earth would "hajj" end in a /zh/-sound in English when it doesn't in Arabic? ...
Dear Kate: Have you read the discussion of what are "irregularly" spelled words by Richard Venezky (1999), The American Way of Spelling? I found his remarks ...
patrick groff
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Mar 6, 2006 4:46 am
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Dear Ms. Speka: Zig Engelmann is a professor of education at the University of Oregon. He has written books on what he calls "Direct" instruction of reading. I...
patrick groff
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Mar 6, 2006 5:04 am
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Dear Ms. Speka: In my book, Myths of Reading Instruction, I tried to answer the question you ask in your second paragraph below. It remains an empirical ...
patrick groff
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Mar 6, 2006 5:24 am
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Dear Mr. McCabe: Not too long ago, I conducted a survey of up-to-date textbooks written for student teachers on reading instruction. I found so many different...
patrick groff
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Mar 6, 2006 5:29 am
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Well then, Kate, how do you pronounce Washington? (D.C. or state!) Wa says WO. Wash wasp waffle want wand etc. (Have a look in the dictionary.) (Only in...
Mona
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Mar 6, 2006 6:09 am
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Dr. Groff, The reading certificate program I am completing is offered by UC Davis Extension. The teachers are educator/administrators in the Sacramento...
