[etni] Re: Fw: Once again reading!

*Which "excellent coursebook" do you reccomend?*

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Ask_Etni <ask@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> From: byk - byk@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Once again reading!
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> I hope I am not becoming a bore.  This is in reply to Sandra's very
> detailed
> letter.  Thank you Sandra.
>
> I have never taught 35 elementary school pupils to read (decode), but I
> have
> taught a wild class of 15 dislectic 7th graders who could not decode at the
> beginning of the year, and could, by the end of the year.  This included an
> extremely dislectic boy, who could barley read Hebrew.  At the end of the
> year he could read English better than Hebrew.
>
> Now I am NOT talking about vocabulary, reading strategies, or language
> acquisitiion, but ONLY about decoding.  It is this skill that brings about
> a
> situation in which 22 out of 35 pupils need the dispensation of being read
> to.
>
> I DO believe that an excellent course book, based on phonics, with tons of
> exercises, which also provides work for the quicker learner, can solve the
> problem for most teachers and pupils.  The pupils must have a lot to occupy
> them during the class time.  Learning to read and write takes time.
> Vocabulary will be learned at the same time - slowly, which is good.  The
> children who pick up languages easily will continue to do so, but everybody
> in the class will have something to do, and will be learning.  At least
> thenumber of pupils who need to be read to will be cut drastically.
>
> Jennifer
>
>
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