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- Wed Jul 19, 2017 7:53 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Is rhyme an important phonological skill? What is the evidence on its impact on reading acquisition?
- Replies: 5
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Re: Is rhyme an important phonological skill? What is the evidence on its impact on reading acquisition?
So happy you have opened up this issue of rhyming and alliteration as I personally disagree with it. My experience in the bilingual literacy field, I have seen no gain at all in making children practise rhymes and alliteration, as the result is: the children who were not able to rhyme were perfectly...
- Mon Jul 17, 2017 3:35 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Phonics for English as a new or additional language
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7048
Re: Phonics for English as a new or additional language
I have been teaching bilingual phonics (English/Spanish, and Portuguese) for at least 10 years now, and have sound evidence to state that the knowledge of both the alphabetic codes, is helpful and very important. Children relate naturally the sounds/phonemes of their mother tongue to the second one....
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:20 pm
- Forum: Research and Recommended Reading
- Topic: Reading Recovery and its failure in New Zealand
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9146
Re: Reading Recovery and its failure in New Zealand
Multi-cueing and mixed methods and so on and so forth have really damaged and delayed the whole reading and writing process not only in the English speaking countries but its influence is in Spanish speaking countries too. In Argentina, when the "tsunami" of the whole language approach hit...