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Topic Started: Oct 27 2010, 09:16 AM (286 Views)
dannychic
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Usually I don't make topics like this, but what the hey. I need to get this out.

I have the worst reading teacher ever this semester in college. I literally went from having the best that taught me so much for over a year and helped me pass the certified state reading test to having one that doesn't know crap about what she's teaching. Here's the deal.

In my first two classes, I was taught that a student must have five stable foundations to be a good reader. Those foundations a phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, in that order. Think of it as a pyramid with Phonemic Awareness being at the bottom and Comprehension being at the very top. If that child doesn't have a basic foundation for phonemic awareness, they can't move up to phonics and so on and so forth. Pretty easy concept to understand. Then why is it so f-ing hard for my current reading teacher to understand this.

She expects to to teach phonics, fluency, comprehension and writing in each of my hour tutoring sessions I have with the child I'm tutoring this semester. While these are his four areas of weakness, you can't crunch all four of these things on a child who's having trouble with phonics. Here's the deal.

If you don't have a basic foundation of phonics, you will not be a fluent reader. You will be too busy decoding words instead of reading with automaticity, or speed, and reading with prosody, or expression. Because you are not a fluent reader, you will not be able to comprehend what you've read because you will be only focused on decoding the words you don't know. This also means you won't be a great writer (you read to write, and you write to read).

Honestly, I think I could teach this class better than my current teacher. -.-;;; I've never been so frustrated in my life.
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MeccaPrime
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Actually, when attempting to read with true automacity and speed, phonics gets in the way. If you want to read quickly and automatically (without conscious thought), you need to train your brain to recognize the shape and structure of the words; if your brain is sounding out the words in your head as you read them, you're doing it wrong. But that may be too much for a kid to grasp, thus rendering my response useless (which is good considering this is the spam section).

Good luck!
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dannychic
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Aw, you're talking about sight words. Yes, I do agree with you. To read with accuracy and automatically, a child does need to have a large vocabulary of sight words. However, when first learn how to read, in order to get through words that the child doesn't know the child needs to have a basic grasp of phonemic awareness and phonics. This is why most books in Kindergarten doesn't have a emphasis on plot and instead focuses on the child just learning the words and getting through those they don't know what phonemic awareness and phonics knowledge.

And thus, this is why I'm doing Running Records with my child while also teaching him Phonics knowledge. Running Records are basically timed readings. You take a part of a book that has 100 words in it and time the child while he reads. When one minute is up, you record how many words he got correctly. This helps improve fluency. And since I'm using words that the child knows as sight words, I'm hoping this helps him become a fast and more accurate reader. We shall see.
Edited by dannychic, Nov 1 2010, 08:57 AM.
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