Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i2R2LJm02637; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 21:21:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 21:21:19 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20040327021835.34899.qmail@web14301.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: tom zurinskas <tzurinskas@yahoo.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:1215] RE: from Heide, Re: where do you start folks reading X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O Content-Length: 1952 Lines: 56 --- "Marrapodi, Jean" <JMarrapodi@phcs.com> wrote: > What an exceptional post! This was a wonderful way > to end the week on a Friday. > Thanks Heide, for taking the time to put this in > writing! > > Jean Marrapodi Heidi wrote: "And, by the way, we are very tired of the reading wars and no longer want to play the phonics vs. whole language game. The point of reading is comprehension, and you can't understand what you read if you don't have the underlying skills. However, not having all the underlying skills doesn't mean you are an idiot who can't get any meaning from print although you may get stuck here and there cause coping skills and background knowledge will only get you so far and if you haven't learned to decode you could probably use some help but that doesn't mean you have to spend the next few weeks only (or mostly) on phonics since systematic instruction in phonemic awareness is not synonymous with sequential instruction." I don't understand this. With phonics we can teach better "coping" mechanisms by enabling the reader to sound out words to figure them out rather than depending on sight memory of words. That is the key. It takes a lot of little pictures to correctly give the big picture. Interesting article about some linguists and psychologists who fought against Massachusetts implementing state wide whole language instruction in 90's. Data showed phonics instruction gives better results. http://www.lexialearning.com/library/how_to_teach_reading.pdf tz ===== Read “Truespel Book One: Analysis of the Sounds (Phonemes) of USA English http://www.1stBooks.com/bookview/16593 Convert text to truespel USA accent by copy/pasting text at: http://www.foreignword.com/dictionary/truespel/transpel.htm Read all about truespel at truespel.com. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
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