Kenneth, I sure hope I didn't sound as if I was promoting NOT teaching phonics. Far from it, in fact. I think their are lots of sound ways to systematically address phonics (we call it word study) and that it HAS to happen. I can say that the traditional 'Plaid Phonics' approach (everybody does B today, doesn't matter if you can discriminate the auditory sound /b/, if you don/t speak English or if you entered school reading, today is for B) has not serves my population well. I see the other side of the phonics coin and that is in high school our district has a group of underachieving readers in crisis who approach every word by sounding out, it is their only approach. I will be looking at your program. Lori
----- Original message ----- From: KENNETH SMITH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <[email protected]> Date: 2008, 29, Sexta Of Fevereiro 04:48 Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] vowel sounds > Bonita, > I'm glad to hear that your students are doing so well without phonics > instruction. However, as a 15 year veteran of teaching Title I kiddos, I > consistently find that the students who are still with me or have moved in > after second grade, bring two major areas of weakness with them - phonics and > fluency. They just don't know what to do with those vowel sounds, and they > don't have the background knowledge to "try it both ways". We began teaching > phonics again this year (after not having it in the curriculum for several > years) - we are using Animated Literacy. I am already seeing a huge > difference in our K-1 kiddos who are receiving this instruction. I can't wait > to see how they do on their DRAs at the end of the year! The four elementary > buildings in our district are currently conducting some action researach on > the effectiveness of this phonics instruction - not all buildings are using > it, so we'll be comparing notes at the end of the year. I'll keep you all > posted on what we discover. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bonita DeAmicis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:38:58 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] vowel sounds > > > ---- Joy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lori, > > I stand with you, but refuse to duck. My kids not only read well, but > > make unbelievable gains in their testing, across the board. (Not that > > testing is everything, but it's hard to ignore 30 and 40% gains for every > > single child who walks in my door.) > > > Does your school do standardized testing of first graders? > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
