Re: Reading instruction

["L. Cirincione" <lindac15@MINDSPRING.COM>]

Nancy-
You wrote:   ".......You HAVE to engage students in order to get them to
learn. ......
The teacher claims the boy is relying too much on the pictures in books.
These are giving him too many clues as to meaning and he has to use the
words.  First grade.  Second semester.  Picture books.  The kid is flunking
reading..........What are we doing to children????"

ENGAGE THE STUDENTS -what a unique & wonderful concept! Wish more school
administrators understood this. (Sounds like my experience with my son....&
many other homeschooled or special ed kids.)
Linda

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy Patterson" <patter@VOYAGER.NET>
To: <ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: Reading instruction


> But have you looked at those systematic phonics programs?  They aren't
> adaptable.  In fact, many (all?)  are scripted.  That's about as far away
> from adaptable as you can get.  And they are boring!  One of the first
> lessons you have to learn in the classroom is the rule of engagement.  You
> HAVE to engage students in order to get them to learn.  I'm not talking
> about entertainment here.  I'm talking about transactions--engaging the
mind.
>
> I know anecdotes are only worth what they mean to individuals.  But I
spent
> two hours talking to a woman yesterday whose first grader is "failing"
> reading because he rushes through his phonics worksheets and stumbles over
> lists of words the teacher assigns as homework.  Yet this kid comes home
and
> begs his mother to read to him, begs her to let him read to her, and begs
> her to let him read every other word in the books they read together
aloud.
> The teacher claims the boy is relying too much on the pictures in books.
> These are giving him too many clues as to meaning and he has to use the
> words.  First grade.  Second semester.  Picture books.  The kid is
flunking
> reading.
>
> I feel like I'm fighting a never-ending battle.  And on another list, I'm
> trying to persuade a 4th grade teacher NOT to teach her children the 5
> paragraph essay.  What are we doing to children????
>
> Nancy
>
> At 12:34 PM 1/29/02 -0800, you wrote:
> >Any or all of them work better than rigid.  Adaptable sounds pretty neat.
> >
> >--- JP Bottini <jpbottini@ADELPHIA.NET> wrote:
> >> Ed:
> >> How about structured or formal or prescribed or designed or adaptable
phonic
> >> program?
> >> Joe Bo
> Nancy G. Patterson, PhD
> Portland Middle School, English Dept. Chair
> Portland, MI  48875
>
> "To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone
can
> learn."
>
> --bell hooks
>
>  patter@voyager.net
> <http://www.msu.edu/user/patter90/opening.htm>
> <http://www.npatterson.net>
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