Phonics - any parents/teachers with experience?
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SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
This is why a 'phonics only' approach is absurd.
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
Yet that's the data collected by the DfE so that's why phonics is still king.
At the time that Miskin was pushing phonics as a magic solution, (and iirc, had a BBC doc made about it), she was also living with Chris Woodhead.
Most of the top dyslexic reading programs use phonics in a multi sensory way. They also use sight words.
IME as a SEN teacher, you have to use both. The phonics vs sight words is a red herring. Children don't learn to read because they start learning at 4, or even earlier, before they are neurologically ready. At 4 you have not even fully developed your visual and auditory systems that are essentials that underpin literacy and you have not yet achieved the bilateral integration necessary for being ready to write.
IME as a SEN teacher, you have to use both. The phonics vs sight words is a red herring. Children don't learn to read because they start learning at 4, or even earlier, before they are neurologically ready. At 4 you have not even fully developed your visual and auditory systems that are essentials that underpin literacy and you have not yet achieved the bilateral integration necessary for being ready to write.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Not enough difference between sea and hear to make a phonetic approach to reading those two words problematic.
miss direct
misfungled
First two trainings done! What a relief. I now actually think phonics are a really logical, sensible idea, even if they don't work with every student and in every context (what does?)
