[senco-forum] Ruth Miskin's Fresh Start

Anyone used Alan Davies's THRASS?  I've used it for the past ten years.
Been around a lot longer than Ruth Miskin's system which appears to bear an
uncanny similarity.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon Fawcitt [mailto:sfawcitt at dsl.pipex.com]
Sent: 25 October 2007 17:36
To: 'Maggie Downie'; 'Jeff Hughes'; Janrolnick at aol.com;
senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk; 'Richard Cook'
Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Ruth Miskin's Fresh Start

Has anyone used Ruth Miskin's Fresh start - aimed at failing readers in
secondaries?  From the 30 mins we had with the sales people, I was
disappointed with the need to have 3 books to work from, as opposed to a one
book scheme - but then the phonographix book is all over the place.
I haven't yet spent time unraveling it, but would appreciate views from
anyone who is currently using it.
Sharon F.

-----Original Message-----
From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Maggie Downie
Sent: 25 October 2007 17:30
To: Jeff Hughes; Janrolnick at aol.com; senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk; Richard
Cook
Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Dispatches RMvTHRASS

Or could it be that it teaches sight words, is very slow to get children
blending and segmenting and that it wasn't actually developed as a programme
for the initial teaching of reading?  Not to mention the fact that most
teachers who have used it seem to have abandoned it as being far too
complex?  Also, its developer is very keen to distance himself from all
other SP programmes...

As to similarities with Ruth's programme, any programme which teaches
letter/sound correspondences systematically and how to use them for reading
and spelling, is bound to have a great many similarities with other
programmes which do the same thing.  There is, after all, only one
alphabetic code and only one  way of decoding and encoding words.

Of course, you could be a real revolutionary and start an entirely new
system of teaching reading - by smelling the letters, perhaps?

Maggie

Jeff Hughes <jeff at box42.com> wrote: Could it me that Alan is a psychologist,
was from the Northwest, has been
promoting this idea for MANY years and has set up a successful commercial
business?

Anyway it IS being used and lauded - just not so much in the UK as
elsewhere.

Jeff

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In your message regarding RE: [senco-forum] Dispatches RMvTHRASS dated Thu,
25
Oct 2007 15:28:37 +0100,  said that ...

> What intriques me is that Ruth Miskin's programme bears a remarkable
> similarity to Alan Davies's THRASS which I've used successfully for the
past
> ten years.  On this forum I've not read anyone critisicing her programme
AND
> YET it seems whenever THRASS is mentioned people are often negative about
> it, why?

> Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk]On Behalf Of
> Janrolnick at aol.com
> Sent: 25 October 2007 08:56
> To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: [senco-forum] Dispatches

> I have been watching the programmes but have recorded them as I have been
> out so have only watched the first two. We have been doing Ruth Miskin's
> programme for two years now and are absolutely delighted with it. To me it

> is  just
> common sense and I can't understand the critics who say the children are
> not
> being exposed to really good books etc How can you expose someone to
really
> good literature when they can't read? However get them on the programme,
> teach
> them to read - and hey presto - the rest will follow. It's a bit like
asking
> someone to play a piano concerto before they have learnt their grade 1
> pieces!

> The TV progs have made me even more determined to make sure all our
> children
> go to secondary school with a decent level of literacy!

> Janice Rolnick
> SENCO/AST

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