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To: Lane3 who wrote (74830)	9/15/2003 12:48:21 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

I was trying to imagine that. I find that poor readers are often confused by words even when the letters are in the correct arangement- so perhaps there is a way to take this information and help poor readers read better? In phonics instruction we have known that kids do learn words in a sequence- they learn to recognize the first letter first, than the last, and finally they figure out the middle- which goes along with the fact that this is how we read the word. If you deal much with 1st graders, when they are learning to read, you'll find them spit out a lot of words they know as guesses, when they aren't quite sure what the middle of the word is. So for "THERE" they might say "the" or "tree", for example.

To: Lane3 who wrote (74830)	9/15/2003 12:58:41 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

That's a great question. I will ask P, who is a reading specialist and keeps up on the latest brain research as it relates to teaching reading.

To: Lane3 who wrote (74830)	9/15/2003 3:07:43 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"Er, does this have any impact on the phonics debate?" It definitely does. When "whole language" came into our culture it was gleefully received as the answer to why johnny can't read. There were tremendous gains for students who struggled with the phonics approach. Then the "whole language" approach began to be championed as "the correct" approach to teaching reading. It became a political cause and stupidly the right wing took phonics and the left wing took whole language. Now the school boards are hit with propaganda from both sides trying to "win" for their side. The fact is, kids need both. Word attack skills are important for kids in learning how to read and use written language, however the experience of language is also important in learning to read and in mature reading. Every kid is different. Some kids are extremely dependent on being able to phonetically decipher a word while other kids must be able to see the wholeness of the thing to make any progress. Both things are important, and the importance of one or the other varies from kid to kid, and from time to time, based on the needs of the kid at any given moment. I wish we could keep the politicians out of it but here we are.