Hi Felicia - From my personal experience, I think I can comment about phonics skills and having a hard time getting them after third grade. I taught kinder, 1st, and 2nd grades for 35 years, was a literacy coach for three years, then K-5 reading for 2 years so I could see more of a continuum. My educated guess is that it is perhaps more likely that a child who learns phonics easily will have that "skill" mastered by the end of third grade. It may be that it is not more difficult after then, but that the ones left without it may well continue with a deficit to one degree or another. If he/she hasn't picked those skills up in fourth grade or so, he may need to be taught what to do that compensates for that deficiency. He'll need more dictionary work. He'll need more work with encoding because that may hook up in a way that fewer children hook up. Also, the way that phonics "generalizes" is enormously dependent on the quantity of reading AT HIS/HER LEVEL he/she does. Like John Cook, Nebraska's Volleyball coach likes to say, "It's all about the reps; it's all about the reps." Education research is so hard to come by, but teacher's experiences should count for something, it seems.
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Felicia Barra <[email protected]>wrote: > I know there's information about phonics and how it's harder to obtain > skills if you do not have them by the third grade but I can't find the > info. > I need to share this with a parent. Can you steer me in the right > direction? > > > -- "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." Henry David Thoreau _______________________________________________ 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
