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themselves
>in the garden!
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>I don't think that EVERY child has the capacity to learn to read easily and
>certainly not to spell regardless of the teaching style involved.
>
>It would also be wonderful if we could all spot exactly what the barrier to
a
>child's learning might be.
>
>The word I don't like is easily. I still think that in this country we
start
Formal academic education too early to the detriment of socialising, oral
>development, learning to listen, to share, to be a group etc. and that we
>should investigate more fully continental early learning styles and
>incorporate much of what they do into our initial stages of education.
>
>How about physical handicap? For example I have yet to meet a blind child
>who learned to read "easily".
>
>Our irregular spelling patterns do not help children spell easily - the
best
>writing I have ever seen was in Bolton in the early 60's watching children
>who had been brought up on "ita" writing to my dictation, where every word
>was correctly spelt - with a lot of ough words.
>
>I would probably spend my essay decimating a sweeping generalisation like
>your essay title!
>
>Best of luck
>
>Ruth Newbury
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