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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 553431" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thanks. I'm kind of getting a very rapid handle on this. It seems that J is being taught by the "global" method and I have to say I don't understand this myself when I see it in the book. Almost immediately he is supposed to be reading whole words and of course what is happening is that he is visually recognising the shape of some of them and repeating them - just the little words - but of course this isn't really reading at all.</p><p>Seems there is another method, syllabic, much better suited to different learners and children with dys problems. A few teachers use it but mostly it seems the parents buy the materials and teach their children themselves... It's also much more fun-looking and playful than the rather dreary book he is using.</p><p>He definitely needs to concentrate on the sound of the letter rather than the name of it, which is actually pointless at the moment and is just oppressing him. He does sometimes get the sound, though. If I show him the word koala and ask him the first letter, he doesn't know but if I say koala and ask him how it begins, he will make a k sound. </p><p></p><p>Update: I gather the method used in the public schools here is very controversial, lots of people complain about it. The private Catholic schools in the local town still use the old-fashioned, syllabic method which basically makes so much more sense to me. I guess there is the radical option of putting him in one of those for the year, if there were a place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 553431, member: 11227"] Thanks. I'm kind of getting a very rapid handle on this. It seems that J is being taught by the "global" method and I have to say I don't understand this myself when I see it in the book. Almost immediately he is supposed to be reading whole words and of course what is happening is that he is visually recognising the shape of some of them and repeating them - just the little words - but of course this isn't really reading at all. Seems there is another method, syllabic, much better suited to different learners and children with dys problems. A few teachers use it but mostly it seems the parents buy the materials and teach their children themselves... It's also much more fun-looking and playful than the rather dreary book he is using. He definitely needs to concentrate on the sound of the letter rather than the name of it, which is actually pointless at the moment and is just oppressing him. He does sometimes get the sound, though. If I show him the word koala and ask him the first letter, he doesn't know but if I say koala and ask him how it begins, he will make a k sound. Update: I gather the method used in the public schools here is very controversial, lots of people complain about it. The private Catholic schools in the local town still use the old-fashioned, syllabic method which basically makes so much more sense to me. I guess there is the radical option of putting him in one of those for the year, if there were a place. [/QUOTE]
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