[senco-forum] [SENco-forum] reading recovery

Where the system always breaks down is for the unlucky

--- On Mon, 19/5/08, SEN at tringham.net <SEN at tringham.net> wrote:

> Where the system always breaks down is for the unlucky
> 20-25% where dealing with phonics/blending/consonant
> clusters 'str' or 'tion', or, abstract
> whole words - 'was/are' is difficult and where
> context in dictation sentences has to be used to learn and
> then these broken back down to individual words in
> isolation. 

Sharon, I don't quite understand what you are saying here.  I work with 'the bottom 25%' of readers in my school ( a perfectly ordinary comp. in an area of social deprivation)and I suppose I must count myself fortunate that I've never worked with a single child who couldn't grasp the principles of phonics and of blending.  On the other hand, they are uniformly confused and messed up by having had a mish mash of methods thrown at them at primary school.  While I appreciate that you have had particular problems with your own children, I strongly suspect that Solity's figure of 3 -5% of children being REALLY difficult to teach is the truer one.

> 
> Not sure how this scheme got to be pushed to the fore by
> government.
> 
I think it's a case of money talking (RR are extremely well funded) a relentless publicity machine and knowing the right people (they have the ear of the PM).

Maggie 

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