More food for thought. Ok, I have readers in my kindergarten
classroom. Parents are for ever telling me their children can read. My
focus is to to have the children enjoy reading and to teach all the
facets of comprehension to all my students. Some
questions.............Any opinions about a guided reading program in
kindergarten? Is it just memorization ( their fortunate to have
someone reading to them so they have memorized the words) at this
level when parents say their child can read? If a child is a good
reader wouldn't he be a good writer? One is decoding and the other
recoding. What does it say if the child is not a good writer but a
real good reader? Thanks for your kind responses. Hillary
On Aug 29, 2009, at 7:37 AM, EDWARD JACKSON wrote:
I suppose this would be vital information if we were raising
children to read word lists, rather than text. Pat Cunnigham
advocates reading names, which makes more sense to me.
Lori Jackson M.Ed.Reading Specialist
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The missing link between nonsense words and unknown words is
"meaning"...If the child has "nowhere else to look but at the word"
find another book or ask for help.
Elisa
Elisa Waingort
Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual
Dalhousie Elementary
Calgary, Canada
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Here's my point: any multisyllabic word, or any word that you may
have never seen before has a lot in common with non-sense words.
Students must be absolutely fluent in the alphabetic principal in
order to advance their reading skills. A non-sense word test does
a very good job of mimicking what kids need to be able to do when
they have no where else to look but at the word...no pictures, no
adult help, nothing but their own tool box of skills...and keep in
mind that at some point, even context will break down as a way to
figure out meaning...
give us good information on how kids attack words they have never
seen before.
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