Hi All APDUK has just added a new section regarding Learning Styles, initially we were only looking at a Visual-Spatial Learner section, but it soon becamer...
News Archive Was author dropped for opposing No Child law? May 13, 2006 BY MONIFA THOMAS Staff Reporter Chicago Sun-Times A popular children's book author said...
Practice makes permanent - Kerry Hempenstall The Age 7.16.06 THE Victorian Government plans to establish "literacy improvement teams" to assist the progress of...
If someone gave me the job of re-spelling "enough," I'd probably pick "enuff" with two "f"s rather than "enuf" with just one. That way, the new "enuff" would...
I know this idea is plausible, but it is not the spelling that has turned children illiterate. It is the teaching, the lack of phonics-first. If they changed...
Dear Mona: I do agree with you that the regular manner in which words are spelled is less a factor in children's learning to read competently than is the ...
patrick groff
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Jul 18, 2006 9:45 am
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Well, when teachers drop look-say etc. and give beginners phonics-first, the national average will soar and perhaps then English-speakers will match Italians....
Hi All, Thought the following might be of interest. http://www.nctq.org/nctq/images/nctq_reading_study_exec_summ.pdf Also, here is my new website where I have...
Carol Murphy
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Jul 18, 2006 1:02 pm
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... When you've learned how to READ (as opposed to grope-and-guess), you can even read a spelling other than the one you've learned. Examples: The USA "walked...
Dear Kate: It was good to hear from you again. There is much sound thinking behind your remarks below. However, there is empirical evidence that Italians,...
patrick groff
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Jul 18, 2006 7:37 pm
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Patrick notes ... ... Did the research compare Italians (who learn reading by phonics, as I recall) with English-speakers who had learned reading by phonics,...
Mona: I agree that teaching phonics-first would improve the spelling of beginning readers. When teaching CVC, CVCC and CCVC words, the correspondence between...
Dear Margo: A few years ago, I inspected all the textbooks on teaching reading I could find as how they defined "dyslexia." I discovered that in order for a ...
patrick groff
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Jul 19, 2006 9:27 am
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Pat notes ... ... I agree with the likelihood of that — at least, from my own experiences and observations. But empiricism and personal experiences can take...
Dear Kate: As I recall, in the study to which I refer the methods used to teach reading in Italian and English were the same. In that regard, I have a ...
patrick groff
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Jul 19, 2006 11:27 am
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Sounds more like a ADD/ADHD issue. Who really cares how the term is defined since it isn't being addressed by the schools anyway. Jimmy Kilpatrick, Editor ...
What study do you refer to, Patrick? Does the study provide any measures of fidelity of instruction? If the English speaking child with taught the English...
Eldo Bergman
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Jul 20, 2006 12:46 am
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Dear Dr. Bergman: I have lost account of the name of the study to which I referred earlier. As I recall, it had to do with the reading ability of college age ...
patrick groff
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Jul 20, 2006 5:58 am
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patrick groff
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Jul 20, 2006 6:14 am
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Thanks to Pat for his information on the comparative ease of learning to read English and Spanish when using phonic methods in both languages. ... Then it...
Dear Kate: The study to which I referred earlier was conducted with young adults. Apparently learning to read a language in which words are spelled more ...
patrick groff
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Jul 20, 2006 9:56 am
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Patrick writes: ... Today's Italians, of course, do not need spelling reform very much, as the sounds of their language have hardly changed in the few hundred ...
That pronunciation of a word changes (morphs) with the addition of prefixes and suffixes is confusing to learners. Fortunately, pronunciation in USA English ...
Dear Kate: Thanks for your very illuminating review of spelling reform. It can be done it appears, in spite of books to the contrary, such as that by Richard ...
patrick groff
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Jul 21, 2006 3:01 am
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Dear Kate: As a high school athlete I found that successful coaches used direct, intensive, systematic, early, and comprehensive instruction of a prearranged ...
patrick groff
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Jul 21, 2006 4:20 am
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Pat — To write the article you suggest, I'd need to know the names of several cognitive psychologists who take an interest in cleaned-up spelling. Do you...
