[senco-forum] Catch up for High schools

There is no systematic teaching of spelling or decoding

From: "chris white" <chris19251 at blueyonder.co.uk>
> There is no systematic teaching of spelling or decoding
> skills. The teaching relies on identifying individual
> words the pupil can't read, teaching them and if you wish
> including words with similar patterns.

Not entirely true. A range of spelling and decoding
techniques are taught, but as you correctly pointed out
these are selected according to the words a child has
problems with.

This makes sense to me. A child who reaches secondary school
as a very poor reader often has grasped some
rules/techniques. It seems to be a bit of a waste of time to
teach them anything other than skills related to the aspects
of reading they are still finding difficult.

I got my training provided for free by my LA so obviously I
did it.

The cost of this scheme is not in the initial outlay for
training. It is costly because it is specifically a one to
one teaching programme. One good thing is that the scheme is
designed to use whatever books your school already has.

--
Mark Norwood
www.avssc.org
"The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail"
Stephen Fry

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