A word from our Professional Member and Newsletter Editor,
Frank:
At last, after nearly 50 years as a teacher and a principal,
I have found a very effective non-phonics approach for
dyslexia...(become a member to read more)
August 2012
NEW STUDY -
letter-position dyslexia
may be common and has
simply gone undetected
...to
see article click here.
Further proof that a
non-phonics based
solution is the key.
July 2012
Raising Small
Souls presents "Animal
School"
June 2012
Teaching Math
without words
Magic
or Silent "e"
The rules of current
English spelling were
first set forth by
Richard Mulcaster in his
1582 publication
Elementarie. Mulcaster
called silent e
"qualifying e", and
wrote of it:
It altereth the sound
of all the vowells, euen
quite thorough one or mo
consonants as, máde,
stéme, éche, kínde,
strípe, óre, cúre, tóste
sound sharp with the
qualifying E in their
end: whereas, màd, stèm,
èch, frind, strip, or,
cut, tost, contract of
tossed sound flat
without the same E, And
therefor the same loud
and sharp sound in the
word, calleth still for
the qualifying e, in the
end, as the flat and
short nedeth it not. It
qualifyeth no ending
vowell, bycause it
followeth none in the
end, sauing i. as in
daie, maie, saie,
trewlie, safetie, where
it maketh i, either not
to be heard, or verie
gentlie to be heard,
which otherwise wold
sound loud and sharp,
and must be expressed by
y. as, deny, aby, ally.
Which kinde of writing
shalbe noted hereafter.
It altereth also the
force of, c, g, s, tho
it sound not after them,
as in hence, for that,
which might sound henk,
if anie word ended in c.
in swinge differing from
swing, in vse differing
from vs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_e
The Child Left
Behind
From Left to Write
-What is Dyslexia?"...by
failing to nurture the
young dyslexics...and
help them to develop in
the way they are meant
to develop rather than
trying to turn them into
something else, we are
missing out on a huge
opportunity for
developing some of the
most creative minds in
our society...
Research article -
Phonics Instruction for
Older Students? Just Say
No...more
details
1 in 6 Americans are
Dyslexic - Unchanged in
100 years...more
detail
What concerns me most
is that the message
being sent to parents is
that the teaching of
phonics is a magic
reading medicine that
enables all children to
read. And if it doesn't
work, then the fault
lies with the way it's
been taught, with me, or
within the child
themselves...read
more
February 2012
"The Government needs
to accept that phonics
is not the only way that
children learn to
read."...read
more
December 2011
Two-thirds fail new
primary phonics reading
check...read
more.
Phonics
teaching
downplayed
2011
New research
indicates the phonics
method of teaching
children to read is not
necessary past the
initial stages of
learning and continuing
it may disadvantage them
in the long term...read
more
"Every school uses
phonics in one form or
another, but it is
certainly not true to
say that it is the best
way of teaching every
child to read..full
article.
