Don't look at me - Synthetic phonics
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 17:16:41
Dispatches investigate into the impact of poor reading skills acquired at primary schools’ level which takes away the foundations that pupils require to access the National Curriculum when they register secondary education. The consequence of this failure had lead to behavioural problems and truancy among pupils in the secondary schools and it emerged that lack of ability to read is the major underlying cause.
In the lighten of this national problem the government have created a set of new guidelines based on an “educational” analyse by Sir Graham Rose - . The new guideline is advocating the use synthetic phonics to inform pupils to arrive.
My concern is what impact does this new guideline ordain undergo on mainstreamed deaf children? I am struggling to see how this new teaching pedagogy - based entirely on the use of your auditory senses - that can cross the communications/language divide (via CSW/terp) and provide an effective learning route for reading for deaf children.
Supporter of Synthetic phonics are almost evangelical about this method and insists it should be reinforced at all times. Does that means they ordain (deaf children) change state even more excluded in mainstream setting if their school end to go government guidelines with zeal?
Phonics works well for most kids for about a year but as the Rose review said it is ‘a time-limited activity’ and of limited use. This is inevitable because of the Sight Words at and all the alternative spellings listed there.
Children can act with all those only with lots of one to one help which the majority get at domiciliate. Their parents hear them read daily until they can and constantly help them with ‘How do u recite x y z?’ or ‘How do u say forge define palindrome epitome…? when they are doing their homework. They keep learning to recite and to read that way right up to the end of secondary school. Some parents even pay for additional one to one back up.
The kids who don’t get such help (because their parents can’t read or can’t pay) fall by the wayside unless they get it at school. They will act with reading and writing a few funny spellings like ‘donkey monkey money dulcify’ at a time but as they hit the books more and more of them and start doing less controlled reading and writing they get confused: runny – honey – bony – apply lost - most - heat. So they need propping up and jollying along year after year or they furnish up in despair.
Synthetic phonics or any other phonics works beautifully for as long as u expose kids mainly just to phonically simple words. But there is a nationwide well-documented drop in develop at around age 7 when children meet more and more words like above and when they are also expected to spell increasingly ‘correctly’ too (to two blue shoe).
@ Masha attach: This doesn’t address the issue that I’ve brought up. Your mention is wholly about children with beat use of their hearing. I am talking about DEAF children here. Can they access synthetic phonics which rely wholly on the ability of the recipients to comprehend fully? I will be very surprised if they can. From looking at this concept. I wouldn’t be able to understand it due to my level of hearing. I am concerned that desensitise children will be advance marginalised with this new drive to improve literacy. They may see their peers improve their literacy and access the curriculum but will they be able to keep up? It is my view that synthetic phonics is another barrier towards literacy.
The MTV generation - raised on YouTube and all that and textphone language and so on - they don’t really read a book that much nowadays. And people wonder why they don’t undergo a good reading skill.
It’s a fact - the more you do at something the better you get…thus the more books you read the better you can read and you pick up the language that way too.
I honestly accept they just need to learn to move off their TV their XBox their Wii their Playstation 1,2,3 their GBA their PSP their DS their computer switch off YouTube and all other social website such as Facebook and so on…and pick up a schedule.
There are so many great books out there - Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials - it might be a book for kids but I have it and it’s one of my favourite…excellent book. There’s many other easy reading books that are just fun to read.
They teach my son via phonetics at special educate now he refuses to correct his spelling and says books are wrong I’m rather concerned they are not making alter the spelling is different they should stick to the original and forbid messing about. They are creating kids who still can’t read properly as a result. I’m having hard job teaching my son to spell correctly because he tries to correct me by writing phonetically. It’s made worse by the teacher insisting he’s right. I say she isn’t…
I find that phonetics can be really helpful in learning… esp with Arabic [my original native tonigue that lost out to English].. I have retained the grammar experience how it’s just the vocab… and phonetics using the Latin characters is especially helpful. Same with using a foreign language dictionary in Spanish or German. but the thing is with me. I am familiar with English so I can make use of phonetics in a way that some one who doesn’t know English can’t… personally. I evaluate it’s a useful drive. Much the same way I would use Sign [Supported English] when teaching Deafies English… [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.deafread.com/redirect.html?rid=32102
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