By Scott Thornbury

The right way to educate talking increases a teacher's wisdom in this the most important topic and supply principles to take and use at school.

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When they wrote each day, every piece of writing she saw was evidence of what children knew, were coming to know, and might benefit from learning more about. When her students had time to write, she learned what she needed to teach them. In subsequent writing that they PHONICS LESSONS 23 did, she could tell if she needed to reteach things or if the children had learned and were applying what she taught. When there was more time for reading, Karen got much more information about individual students.

This last view is one I’ll return to in the chapter on politics and reading. Think about your definition of reading and where it fits in Willis’ categories. I know that so far this chapter has in it many quotes from other reading researchers. I included these voices to demonstrate just how complicated things about reading are. We are the consumers of this research when we buy a reading program, engage with children and texts provided by those programs, send our loved ones to schools that mandate such programs, or take a stance about what reading is and how it might best be taught.

Others will make the /k/ sound for the . ” This part of the lesson is called phonological or phonemic awareness by Karen when we talk about it. She uses the two (phonological and phonemic) interchangeably when we talk. She explains that it’s meant to teach about sounds and words, but she thinks that the nonsensical focus derails that intention. She explains that children want meaning first and that the presentation of nonwords confuses them, especially those just beginning to read. That portion of the lesson is over and Karen shifts to the next portion.

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