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Originally Posted by Eric
Funny you should mention this, hon. I read the following article in yesterday's Guardian:
Clever but poor boys 'are 30 months behind richer peers in reading' ? study | Education | The Guardian
A sad comment on the system(s) that have replaced the one that many of us on here are familiar with, and have benefitted from. And it seems, reading between the lines, that what is being suggested is similar to what was deemed outdated almost forty years ago.
I'm happy to see that Canada does relatively well in the survey  |
Strangely, when my lad was pre-school, his mother and I would read to him, teach him what the letters were, and he could read by the time he went to school.
Now, the teacher, when we told her this, looked at us in horror, 'you've taught him to read? How terrible, we use a system to make learning words so much easier.
Yeah right a new language basically nothing like English. We couldn't help him we didn't understand it, he ended up behind the other kids for a while, until they actually had to convert to 'proper' reading.
Not wishing to make the same mistake, we deliberately didn't teach our daughter to read even though she was more than keen and talented to do so.
First teacher we saw, asked, why haven't you encouraged her? We explained, oh that pile of rubbish we don't use that here, we teach them properly.
We set to and soon had her up to speed.
Even with different styles from different teachers, with our input we had corrected the errors forced on our children and by the age of 8 both were declared to be at a reading age of 11.
Just shows, with nothing fancy, just half an hour a day, parents can make a big difference to children's learning.