Early Reading (was no subject)

[Ronald Kephart]

Robert, Thanks for the backup. By the way, I drove up to Maryland to visit
with my sisters. We just back from picking blackberries behind her house,
which is not far from Antietam Battlefield. I spent most of today on the
Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia. Had to brake once to avoid hitting a large
deer that ran across the road in front of me. Stopped at nearly every scenic
overlook, and managed a short hike up to Buck's Knob. Funny, it really was
like a knob, a small rounded summit falling away on all sides. Mountains-
good for the soul. Ron


On 8/11/08 11:21 AM, "Robert Lawless" <robert.lawless at wichita.edu> wrote:

> Yes. This is also my understanding from research related to teaching my
> son with Down syndrome. And it worked. Robert.
>> My own feeling, and I¹ve done some homework on this as well as
>> conducted an applied project giving English Creole speaking kids
>> access to litaercy through their own language, is that English
>> speaking children of all stripes and colors would be best served if
>> initial reading were taught using any one of the phonemically based
>> systems, like ITA or UNIFON. This is certainly what the research
>> points to. The thing is, some of this research is somewhat old, dating
>> from the 60s, but as far as I know the essential finding has not been
>> refuted: children can acquire reading more quickly in a phonemically
>> based spelling, and those same children can generalize their reading
>> skill to traditional English spelling, so easily that they very
>> quickly surpass the reading skills of kids who are exposed only to
>> traditional spelling.
>> 
>> Ron 
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