Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f9RLvc005878; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:57:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:57:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <10e.73983be.290c8770@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: LELemke@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3669] Phonics and learners who are hearing impaired....and other stuff!! X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Mac sub 36 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1493 Lines: 22 Clif, Learning tricks in order to spell better is not what we teachers do. There are actual rules for learning how to spell. For a quick example look at the word hoping and hopping. I explain to my students that if the vowel preceding the last single consonant is short, you double the consonant (not true if there are two consonants after the short vowel, of course) and that if the vowel preceding the last consonant is long, you do not double the consonant. Hence hoping means wishing and the vowel is long. Hopping means like a rabbit and the vowel is short. There are many other spelling rules that enable a student to learn how to spell better. Also as for the deaf being able to learn to read: I probably have a strange (I like to think creative....)way of teaching, but when we learn phonics we also learn how to sign the letters, and I have given my students a test on phoneme discrimination by making them tell me some of the sounds from reading my lips. Getting back to my earlier reference to the Language! program, one of the techniques we use is having the students make an arm motion with their right arms for each phoneme. As you are undoubtedly aware, the right arm activates the left side of the brain, and the left side of the brain is for language acquisition. Hence, the Language! method engages all modalities of learning, and trust me, even an ADHD child is kept busy in my class with learning and not with being disruptive. Ellie Lemke
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