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

Where the system always breaks down is for the unlucky

If you look at the INDEPENDENT evaluations of RR you will find that it by 
and large a sham.  RR obviously still has big friends in big government. 
They should not be spending any of our money on it.

Philip EP
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maggie Downie" <maizie2004 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Becta Senco" <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>; <SEN at tringham.net>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [senco-forum] [SENco-forum] reading recovery

--- 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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