Interesting Mind Trick

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LADYJAYNE

Monday, January 12, 2004 1:10 AM

Yep. This is very true. This is why in education today there is a big push for kids to learn "high frequency words" so that they can read on sight rather than having to sound out everything. Teach them the words that appear most often first, which in English are pronouns and prepositions.

It's also why a lot of current reading ed revolves around rhyming words, or "word families" as they call them for Kindergarteners and 1st graders. Let them learn words in groups that have the same endings. -an: fan, can, tan, etc. If they can see the same ending that they already know, they only have to worry about how the first letter sounds.

--Kala

JASONZZZ

Monday, January 12, 2004 2:50 AM

LadyJayne, being a teacher yourself.
I've got a couple of questions.

Do you prefer that kids come in (to the
school system) having learned phonics
or something similar to it?

What do you normally do when a parent
disagrees with a particular teaching
system or method?

Quote:
Originally posted by ladyjayne:
Yep. This is very true. This is why in education today there is a big push for kids to learn "high frequency words" so that they can read on sight rather than having to sound out everything. Teach them the words that appear most often first, which in English are pronouns and prepositions.

It's also why a lot of current reading ed revolves around rhyming words, or "word families" as they call them for Kindergarteners and 1st graders. Let them learn words in groups that have the same endings. -an: fan, can, tan, etc. If they can see the same ending that they already know, they only have to worry about how the first letter sounds.

--Kala

LADYJAYNE

Monday, January 12, 2004 3:47 AM

Well, I'm not a teacher yet. I'm doing my student teaching.

As for your first question, do I think children need to know phonics before coming into school: not particularly. That's what school is for, to teach them how to read. Do I think it's helpful if they've had lots of opportunities to look at reading materials and have lots of books read to them? Absolutely! The more exposure kids have to print, the better. What's even more important is exposing them to books that they enjoy, laugh at, and love. They need to discover that reading should be pleasurable, not painful.

As for dealing with parents who disagree with methods, it's not something I have had to deal with at all yet. One thing teachers try to do today, however, is use a variety of teaching methods. Understanding that not every method of teaching works for every child is a very important part of becoming an educator.

--Kala

NICKTESLA

Monday, January 12, 2004 6:41 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by TeelaBrown:
I go to a "gifted" school (aka smart people school), and I heard that "gifted" kids are more likely to misspell something oon the board because their mind is moving faster than their hand. Very odd.

A Ha--now I can prove how smart I am--through my creative typos!

I know I prefer typing to longhand when I write anything more than an outline. If I do write in longhand, then transcribe it, I always wind up changing it--writing from my memory of those notes rather than actually reading/typing them verbatim.

Nick Tesla
http://tesla-pc.com
Computing that makes sense.

FIRELILY

Tuesday, February 3, 2004 1:36 AM

pretty cool.
Here's more info if you're interested
http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp

ROCKETJOCK

Saturday, February 21, 2004 7:11 AM

"Us hate beauty. Us love ugliness. Is big crime make anything perfect on Bizzaro world."

RocketJock

KRYSTOPHER

Sunday, February 22, 2004 11:46 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by TeelaBrown:
That happens to me. But, I talk fast when really excited, so no understands what I'm saying. At school, though, even if I talk slowley, they don't listen, so I say what's the point of talking slow?

Keep flyin'!

I talk just to hear myself talk... and annoy those gorram Niao se dub doo gway around me... *cough*EnglishClass*cough*

~~~
Watch your steps in the dark and beware of where you wander, because you do not want me to appear behind you in a dark, deserted alley way...

SIGMANUNKI

Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:34 PM

I didn't go to a gifted school but I tend to misspell words quite often (my yahoo spell check is my saviour). Beyond that I tend to think so quick (I think it's because of that) that when I go back to re-read my message I some times have left out entire sentences or even portions of paragraphs.

From what my wife tells me, it's because I think to fast and my brain tends to jump from shiny thought to some other shiny thought and I don't notice it. Apparently it gets worse when I get tired.

All this has resulted in having to spend (some times) more that 30 min going over emails/posts/etc to fill in the blanks enough that I'm comfortable submitting it. This one is a 10-15 min one.

I guess some of us are wired differently, eh! It'd be a boring world if it weren't that way

----
If you truly love the memory, you must set it free()!

JARED

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 8:13 PM

boy, its good to see im in perfect company. and knowing that others leave out whole sentences.. im still sticking to single words, usually unimportant ones (the ones that are so obvious its wasted effort to actually write them.. or so my sub conciousness must be thinking).

and guilty of the backbirth thing. mixing synonyms because in the middle of it you just decided to use the other word, jumps in midsentence.. dont you just love associative thinking? two things are connected in your head and its a simple logical step for you.. and a completely weird jump for anyone else.

good thing im not tired yet. even I notice how weird my thoughts become when im tired. and you know youre in trouble when you start mixing object oriented programming with life partners (ok, when im tired i try to apply programming rules to pretty much everything).

reminds of something thats supposed to reveal shizophrenic tendencies: what do an old couple and a table have in common?

MILORADELL

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:11 PM

I'm a rabid speller, corrector, etc - guess it comes from when I was an editing intern for a publisher. As far as long-hand goes - I drop all my vowels. I blame it on Urdu!! Really, sir, I'm not lazy at all!!

As long as the syntax works, I find just about anything is readable, no matter how horrible the spelling is. But maybe because my little brother (ok, he's 30 - maybe I should stop calling him that?) has got to be the worst speller ever. I grew up with it

****
Those who will not reason
Perish in the act:
Those who will not act
Perish for that reason.

W.H. Auden

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