Alison Clarke reviews BBC documentary 'B is for Book': via her post 'THIS is a BORING book!'
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2018 12:05 pm
Alison Clarke is a remarkable, international, pioneering advocate for evidence-informed reading instruction.
She has written many outstanding, detailed, referenced posts via her multi-purpose blog 'Spelfabet'. Alison provides some of her own practical resources but also lists and promotes the work and phonics/literacy programmes of other people from around the world.
I urge anyone involved in teaching children to read, training teachers, and parents/carers of children learning to read, to check out Alison's site.
The link below features a detailed analysis of a BBC documentary broadcast in 2016. When I first saw this BBC documentary I was utterly horrified by the example of flawed teaching that it revealed (but that was not the understanding or intent of the makers) and, at that time, I started a thread via IFERI to alert people to the underlying events of the programme - which were not what the innocent viewer might have noticed or understood but which epitomised the deep-rooted problem we have, to this day, of lack of shared professional understanding of how best to teach reading - and of how best children can practise their reading when beginners or strugglers.
The BBC documentary actually, inadvertently, lays bare 'in plain sight' how damaging flawed teaching, and practising, methods can be for so many children.
I've linked to Alison's review of the BBC documentary on my original post - but I also wanted to flag up Alison's hard work via this new post which I shall 'pin' as it is so important and accessible to read:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo
She has written many outstanding, detailed, referenced posts via her multi-purpose blog 'Spelfabet'. Alison provides some of her own practical resources but also lists and promotes the work and phonics/literacy programmes of other people from around the world.
I urge anyone involved in teaching children to read, training teachers, and parents/carers of children learning to read, to check out Alison's site.
The link below features a detailed analysis of a BBC documentary broadcast in 2016. When I first saw this BBC documentary I was utterly horrified by the example of flawed teaching that it revealed (but that was not the understanding or intent of the makers) and, at that time, I started a thread via IFERI to alert people to the underlying events of the programme - which were not what the innocent viewer might have noticed or understood but which epitomised the deep-rooted problem we have, to this day, of lack of shared professional understanding of how best to teach reading - and of how best children can practise their reading when beginners or strugglers.
The BBC documentary actually, inadvertently, lays bare 'in plain sight' how damaging flawed teaching, and practising, methods can be for so many children.
I've linked to Alison's review of the BBC documentary on my original post - but I also wanted to flag up Alison's hard work via this new post which I shall 'pin' as it is so important and accessible to read:
https://www.spelfabet.com.au/2018/10/th ... ring-book/THIS is a BORING book!
[Updated link provided by Susan Godsland]I’ve just watched a great 2016 BBC4 documentary called “B is for book”. It follows a group of London children from their first day at school for a year, and explores how they learn to read.
The kids live on a public housing estate in Hackney, and most speak languages other than English at home.
The film is not currently on the BBC website, but a few people have put it on YouTube. The version I watched is here, and you might like to keep it open in a new tab while you read, so you can quickly find and watch the interesting bits I describe below.
You’ll love all the children, but I was most entranced by a little boy called Stephan. An honest child with a low tolerance for Educrap, he looks and behaves a lot like a little boy I worked with last year, also a twin from public housing inclined to slide under the table.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo