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

10 O'clock news last night -

Usha Goswami has found, in research that 63% of dyslexics have difficulty
discriminating a rising tone.  Her research is complex and this is but one
finding.  It might be inferred that a fair percentage of the pupils passing
through our dyslexia unit have experienced auditory processing difficulty.
We do use a synthetic phonics approach as the core of our teaching and it is
not one size fits all.  We also use multisensory methods that employ visual,
auditory and kinaesthetic.  We tailor each lesson precisely to the responses
of the student and teach to smart targets for that individual.  We are aware
of co-morbidity and take this into account too.  Very few children fail to
become literate with this approach.

Philippa

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Stuart Lucas <lucass at loretto.com> wrote:

> 10 O'clock news last night -
> Reading Recovery - being pushed by .......?
> Looks like added some 20 odd billion pounds to Ed budget but not much
> rewards??????
>
> Stuart
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Philip
> MacMillan
> Sent: 19 May 2008 20:36
> To: maizie2004 at yahoo.co.uk; Becta Senco; SEN at tringham.net
> Subject: Re: [senco-forum] [SENco-forum] reading recovery
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> 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
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> --- On Mon, 19/5/08, SEN at tringham.net <SEN at tringham.net> wrote:
>
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> > 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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