[senco-forum] Acceleread/Accelewrite (was Meaning of Reading Ages)

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Martin Miles

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I can endorse this. I have worked this year with two Year 1 boys. One  of
them was not even certain of the reading direction at the start of  the
year. He would look at a consonant in a word, either at the beginning  or
the end of that word, and guess wildly at what the word might be,  as
long it started with the sound of the single letter he had  recognised.
He did not understand the difference between words and letters.  He is
now confidently working his way through a structured scheme of  largely
decodeable books (with a smattering of high frequency words he  has
learned, even though they are not yet decodeable to him). He  has
followed a combination of phonemic awareness training, the  reading
scheme work books and reading books, some games with high  frequency
words, and Acceleread/Acclewrite. His reading and spelling is now  in the
upper average range (I forget exactly what percentile, and this  should
be treated with some caution as he is only one year inside the range  for
the test in question). Still, it looks very promising I think.  Mary