Return-Path: <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id iB367YF06037; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 01:07:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 01:07:34 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <002501c4d8fe$52897750$890a1845@DeepThought> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Woods" <woods@ncia.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:1216] RE: Plateaus for beginning ABE readers--2nd X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 790 Lines: 17 Chris Badger wrote: > These are big ideas with big vocabulary > but that should spur us as teachers to occasionally > ignore phonics in favor of philosophy. Man, I'm with you, Chris. When I look at my adult early and non readers, most of them already have pretty good phonics skills. There have beena few students with really severe perceptual and memory problems that made it impossible for them to remember phonics and no amount of teaching phonics would change that. One of these fellows had me so perplexed that in desperation we tried using colored acetate overlays. To my surprise, blue made a marked improvement in his accuracy and speed. I can only surmise that he already had the decoding skills, but his perception was such that he was not able to use them. Tom Woods
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