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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 553621" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thanks, Kttlc, for arguing the other side and making this even harder <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> The thing is, a week ago I didn't even know there was such a thing as a global method of reading... apparently it was invented by a French doctor at the beginning of the 20th century. It seems to me very wierd but then I learnt with just the phonic method. I have read that the global method is not good for kids with learning difficulties and lots of people here HATE it! I mean really hate it... whole campaigns and organisations set up to fight it. People accuse it of causing wide scale illiteracy, poor standards of reading, etc. I just don't know. I can see that J seems pretty lost with it all at the moment, syllables or whole words. I just don't think he's ready to read. I did enquire about the possibility of a place at a local Catholic school and there isn't a single one! They are all oversubscribed with waiting lists (people wanting to escape the global method? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />)</p><p>Great, another dilemma. I don't know whether to tough it out at the school and just see what happens or follow my gut and pull him out altogether for... what I'm not quite sure. For the moment he doesn't even legally have to go to any school (well, for the next 3 months...) It's just things like this... we got home from school, I said we'll do his homework, he wasn't keen, sat down with me, we looked at the page. Read the syllable ra (you're right, Ktllc, it's mixed, though the syllables are followed by great lists of words and phrases he has to "read") - he says la. No, what's that, showing him the r... l he says, then gets upset when I say no, says that at school it is la, etc. Is going into a meltdown so I just close the book and stop it. Then he wants to go off and collect conkers from the big chestnut tree near our house so I put his watch on, show him the time he has to be back (he was, too) put a bag on his back and off he goes. Then he comes back brimming with enthusiasm and chatter about all the conkers he has collected... and I think THIS is what he should be doing right now, not getting anxious and upset about academic learning that he cannot yet follow...</p><p>Oh - and he did have a very thorough eye test. All tickety-boo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 553621, member: 11227"] Thanks, Kttlc, for arguing the other side and making this even harder :) The thing is, a week ago I didn't even know there was such a thing as a global method of reading... apparently it was invented by a French doctor at the beginning of the 20th century. It seems to me very wierd but then I learnt with just the phonic method. I have read that the global method is not good for kids with learning difficulties and lots of people here HATE it! I mean really hate it... whole campaigns and organisations set up to fight it. People accuse it of causing wide scale illiteracy, poor standards of reading, etc. I just don't know. I can see that J seems pretty lost with it all at the moment, syllables or whole words. I just don't think he's ready to read. I did enquire about the possibility of a place at a local Catholic school and there isn't a single one! They are all oversubscribed with waiting lists (people wanting to escape the global method? :)) Great, another dilemma. I don't know whether to tough it out at the school and just see what happens or follow my gut and pull him out altogether for... what I'm not quite sure. For the moment he doesn't even legally have to go to any school (well, for the next 3 months...) It's just things like this... we got home from school, I said we'll do his homework, he wasn't keen, sat down with me, we looked at the page. Read the syllable ra (you're right, Ktllc, it's mixed, though the syllables are followed by great lists of words and phrases he has to "read") - he says la. No, what's that, showing him the r... l he says, then gets upset when I say no, says that at school it is la, etc. Is going into a meltdown so I just close the book and stop it. Then he wants to go off and collect conkers from the big chestnut tree near our house so I put his watch on, show him the time he has to be back (he was, too) put a bag on his back and off he goes. Then he comes back brimming with enthusiasm and chatter about all the conkers he has collected... and I think THIS is what he should be doing right now, not getting anxious and upset about academic learning that he cannot yet follow... Oh - and he did have a very thorough eye test. All tickety-boo. [/QUOTE]
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