[senco-forum] asoft

Martin via Stuart wrote:
 >But thanks for the story.  I will use it if I may.<

Certainly.
When I recapped that story to my family yesterday,
my daughter reported that my grandson's class
is now being asked the read silently.
Seems a bit young at 5yrs 2mths.
(Hope the teacher will not stop pupils
pointing to words if they want to do so.)
So, by need or by habit, children do read aloud to themselves.

By the way, last September, Dominic was given
a tin of irregular words to take home and learn to read.
He had not been there long enuf to be taught
names or sounds for all the letters,
if he had not already known them.
And the reading books were Oxford Reading Tree,
full of irregular words, like 'come, said, was'.
Old non-fonic habits die hard.

Jean
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Jean Hutchins, SE Surrey DA.
RSA Dip SpLD, AMBDA, retired.
E-mail: jeanhutchins1 at ntlworld.com
British Dyslexia Association Web: www.bdadyslexia.org.uk
Also into spelling reform: www.simplifiedspelling.org
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