[senco-forum] Reading Recovery

What is A.R.R.O.W., Luisa?  

I ask because I am using AcceleReadAcceleWrite (ARAW) with a child and am wondering if you mean that, or something completely different!

I agree with you that there isn't a 'miracle cure' for EVERY child, but I have found, so far, that basing instruction on synthetic phonics PRINCIPLES i.e filling in gaps in letter/sound correspondence knowledge and emphasising sounding out and blending all through the word, for reading, and segmenting words into their component sounds for spelling, has worked very well for nearly all the children I have worked with.  The biggest problem with I find with secondary children is not teaching the correspondences and the sounding out etc. but eradicating the faulty habits they have used over the previous 5 or 6 years; guessing words, looking for words within words, not paying close attention to the orthographic information within a word and a pathological fear of multisyllable words, which causes them to panic at the sight of one!  

Working within the parameters of the SP principles I might have to explore different ways of working with children with specific difficulties, but it is the most successful approach that I've found.

Maggie

--- On Mon, 19/5/08, Luisa Pinnell <luisapinnell at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Incidentally has anyone ever tried A.R.R.O.W.? and if so
> what is your opinion?
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