[senco-forum] [SENco-forum] ERR? Should make a good discussion!

I must confess that I immediately associated the Initials ERR with

Beve Hornsby reckoned that 250 high frequency words make up 25% of all
text.  She published that list in Alpha to Omega.  It is fairly similar to
the NLS lists but there are some on there that differ.

Philippa

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Maggie Downie <maizie2004 at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

> I must confess that I immediately associated the Initials ERR with
> Solity's Early Reading Research programme.
>
> A more complete paper by Solity is this one :
> http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/pdf/literacy/jsolity_phonics.pdf
>
> In it he proposes that some 3-5% will still have problems with learning to
> read.So don't predict the death of 'SEN' just yet!    Along with all other
> proponents of systematic, explicit phonics for initial reading instruction,
> Solity believes that SEN registers would be greatly reduced, not done away
> with alll together. SEN does encompass children with other difficulties,
> doesn't it?
>
> I think his '100 HFWs' is rather off beam.  It might work in the early
> stages of reading acquisition, when non-decodable texts are highly
> repetitive with very limited vocabulary, but I don't see how they can be of
> much use when texts become more complex.
>
> Maggie
>
> SEN at tringham.net wrote: Due to the huge gaps in my knowledge I Google:
> Early Reading Research?
>
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml?xml=/education/2002/06/14/te
> nsixt15.xml<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml?xml=/education/2002/06/14/tensixt15.xml>
>
> Hopefully J S & his team are not really claiming they discovered the 100
> words that make up 50% of  basic reading words are they?
>
>
> Cut and paste this
> www.icteachers.co.uk/resources/literacy/earlyreadingresearch.pdf  if you
> want to see Jonathan Solity's views on why his system renders the COP
> /Statementing and Senco's redundant if you implement the ERR system!!!
>
> Should make for a few good debates I think
>
> Sharon Tringham
>
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> Hi Folks
>
> I went to see a child in school last week and was told she goes to ERR
> sessions.  Unfortunately, the person I was speaking to didn't know what
> it was except that it's something to do with phonics.
>
> Is this Early Reading Recovery?  If so please could someone explain what
> it involves.  If not any suggestions as to what it might be?
>
> Thanks for you help
>
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