Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h6GMKD706960; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:20:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:20:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <2A1DC28B.7B602119.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2424] Re: A small point on reading theory X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1199 Lines: 13 A puzzle! What fun! Hmmm. Well, only about 85% of English words are phonemically regular...and this is a French word. So I guess I would go to the context and see if the student(s) could work it out from that. If not, I would definitely 'give' it to them, and then do a lesson on French words, or restuarants, or some such. I would also go to the newspaper and cut out ads for restaurants--or magazines--so students could see that the word is in regular use. Have a lesson on restuarants and restaurant food, have each student bring in a menu..read foods...lots of possibilities. Create ideal restuarant meals. Expand vocabulary! Have each student write about the best (or worst) restaurant meal ever.... I have thought a lot about the use of the term "balanced," and I would ditch it, I don't know where it comes from. I would use the word "integrated" which is what we are aiming for, after all. Thanks for the change of pace, George. I started off yesterday with this sentence: "Syntax is what makes us human,"and then staggered along with dental surgery yesterday afternoon and more reading and writing today. I really appreciate your life-of-the-teacher anecdote. Andrea
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