This was wonderful! Having taught reading under so many of the theoretical frameworks that Emily discussed it was terribly frustrating to know that kids weren't making the progress that they should have, It is refreshing to hear her research results. Please keep putting this info out there.
People online are claiming that children shouldn't be exposed to the word "carrot" in a book until they've explicitly been taught what a schwa is and how to read the r-controlled vowel as "air" rather than "ar." I have first graders who are already reading chapter books fluently, but we don't teach schwas or r-controlled vowels until second grade, so our new SoR reading program says they can't read their beloved chapter books during reading time anymore. If I were their parents, I would be livid.
I didn’t discover this idea that parents are suppose to teach their kids how to read until my kids were in school. My parents didn’t teach me, I learned at school. I thought that was the point of sending them to school. If I could have figured out how to teach my kids to read, I probably wouldn’t have sent them to school, I would have homeschooled. I tried, and I was terrible at teaching them. Now I think that I probably would have gotten it done faster and better, I assumed the school would be good at what I thought they were suppose to do.
@wednesday55 Same happened in our school. Students could not read their favorite books during independent reading time until mastering the decoding continuum. I believe decoding is a must for learning how to read but preventing a kid from accessing a cueing system book is unthinkable . I thinks we should blend the two reading approaches instead of taking a radical view. Many people behind this approach have never taught a day in their entire lives. Honestly, my students have shown a great improvement under the decoding “science of reading” approach but we are now encountering fluency issues among others. I hope this “new” thing does not turn into another experimental-political-economic agenda. Time will tell us.
Start at around ~15 minutes. Thanks for this great webinar!
This was wonderful! Having taught reading under so many of the theoretical frameworks that Emily discussed it was terribly frustrating to know that kids weren't making the progress that they should have, It is refreshing to hear her research results. Please keep putting this info out there.
People online are claiming that children shouldn't be exposed to the word "carrot" in a book until they've explicitly been taught what a schwa is and how to read the r-controlled vowel as "air" rather than "ar."
I have first graders who are already reading chapter books fluently, but we don't teach schwas or r-controlled vowels until second grade, so our new SoR reading program says they can't read their beloved chapter books during reading time anymore.
If I were their parents, I would be livid.
I didn’t discover this idea that parents are suppose to teach their kids how to read until my kids were in school. My parents didn’t teach me, I learned at school. I thought that was the point of sending them to school. If I could have figured out how to teach my kids to read, I probably wouldn’t have sent them to school, I would have homeschooled. I tried, and I was terrible at teaching them. Now I think that I probably would have gotten it done faster and better, I assumed the school would be good at what I thought they were suppose to do.
@wednesday55 Same happened in our school. Students could not read their favorite books during independent reading time until mastering the decoding continuum. I believe decoding is a must for learning how to read but preventing a kid from accessing a cueing system book is unthinkable . I thinks we should blend the two reading approaches instead of taking a radical view. Many people behind this approach have never taught a day in their entire lives. Honestly, my students have shown a great improvement under the decoding “science of reading” approach but we are now encountering fluency issues among others. I hope this “new” thing does not turn into another experimental-political-economic agenda. Time will tell us.