I may have missed a posting, but I can't find a
reference that Anita gave to back her statement. 
Bonnita

--- John Nissen <jn at cloudworld.co.uk> wrote:


> 

> Hello Anita,

> 

> Thanks for this piece of research, which supports

> the idea that there are 

> pathways in the brain which need to be developed for

> fluent reading, and 

> that these pathways serve to allow the reading of

> both familiar and 

> unfamiliar words.  This suggests that, for the

> fluent reader, there is no 

> special treatment of sight words in the brain, and

> every word is decoded in 

> the same way, by deducing the sound of the word from

> its spelling, as you 

> say.

> 

> Now the brain research on dyslexia suggests that

> other pathways are used by 

> slow readers.  If the pathways for fluent reading

> were then developed, e.g. 

> by intensive phonics training, one would expect the

> slow reader to become 

> fluent.  I would love to see some research on this. 

> If anybody here knows 

> of such research, please "reply all" to this email

> with a reference.

> 

> Thanks,

> 

> John

> 

> John Nissen

> Cloudworld Ltd - http://www.cloudworld.co.uk

> maker of the assistive reader, WordAloud.

> Try WordAloud with synthetic phonics:

>

http://www.cloudworld.co.uk/teaching-synthetic-phonics.htm

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> 

> 

> 

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Anita Landoll" <amlandoll at yahoo.com>

> To: "The Learning Disabilities Discussion List" 

> <learningdisabilities at nifl.gov>

> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 4:41 PM

> Subject: [LearningDisabilities 699] Re:

> one-size-fits-all methodology

> 

> 

> > Experts say that they are finding that all words,

> irregular as well as 

> > regular, follow the same decoding pathway in the

> left side of the brain. 

> > So I think we need to help our learners make sense

> of any word they need 

> > to know in order to read the text they need to

> read, by helping them find 

> > the sound spelling within the written spelling of

> the word.  Using 

> > multi-sensory techniques, of course.

> >

> > Anita learntoreadnow

> 

> 

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