tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post6916342599104915542..comments2024-03-28T15:17:18.477-05:00Comments on Orange Crate Art: To: Calkins, Fountas, and PinnellMichael Leddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-74628163493742346012023-02-13T16:13:26.535-06:002023-02-13T16:13:26.535-06:00Thanks, Joe. I’ve been waiting on a follow-up epis...Thanks, Joe. I’ve been waiting on a follow-up episode they talked about doing, but nothing yet.Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-8657051270545094772023-02-13T13:48:49.845-06:002023-02-13T13:48:49.845-06:00This interview with Emily Hanford from the "S...<a href="https://www.honestlypod.com/podcast/episode/27e512f3/why-65-of-fourth-graders-cant-really-read" rel="nofollow">This</a> interview with Emily Hanford from the "Solar a Story" podcast is very interesting. I'm going to subscribe.Joe DiBiasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14650146446464166175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-52850049899115671262022-11-14T21:53:08.832-06:002022-11-14T21:53:08.832-06:00Something you’d find interesting about Sold a Stor...Something you’d find interesting about <i>Sold a Story</i>, Sean: several accounts of parents who realized that their kids were going through the motions of reading, without really reading <i>the words</i>. According to the teachers though, the kids were doing great.<br /><br />My wife just talked to a grad student who is now learning the Fountas-Pinnell curriculum for teaching reading. My wife recommended listening to <i>Sold a Story</i>.Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-32023588911422223142022-11-14T21:27:53.929-06:002022-11-14T21:27:53.929-06:00My area had no kindergarten. I learned to read dur...My area had no kindergarten. I learned to read during grade one; by grade two I was reading the Hardy Boys as I ate lunch. (at my desk, we had no lunch room until junior high)<br /><br />My sister read in view of her kids, and read aloud, and my poor niece was partway through grade three before my sister knew she couldn't read. (I hope a teacher noticed first) The girl was switched from a school that used whole word to one using phonetics, and so she learned to read by repeating grade three. But I don't think she ever recovered to reading for fun.<br /><br />The computer nerd at my local Macintosh Store was surprised that I could read as fast as I could talk, although he wasn't surprised to type at talking speed. And here I thought nerds were smart. More: He preferred audio because his attention wouldn't wander like when he was reading, while I was the exact opposite. (I often have to click "stop" and slide the back up thingy.<br /><br />In the near future I will swing by my local university and ask an Education professor about bell curve/I.Q. barriers to reading.Sean Crawfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13724844971087639706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-75796798772969254452022-11-11T12:48:54.992-06:002022-11-11T12:48:54.992-06:00I too have no memory of learning to read — it’s on...I too have no memory of learning to read — it’s on parental authority that my brother and I could both read before kindergarten. (And now I remember that <i>My Weekly Reader</i> was in the kindergarten classroom. Was it for kids who could already read?!)<br /><br />Something I think is wonderful: Rotary groups in the States (and perhaps elsewhere) give dictionaries to third-graders. Your own dictionary at that age? So great!Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-3704044533673369152022-11-11T11:26:51.632-06:002022-11-11T11:26:51.632-06:00I do remember phonics from my grade school days in...I do remember phonics from my grade school days in the 1960s. I don’t recall if I liked it or not, it was just another subject to study and pass. I don’t recall when I learned how to read, it seems like something I’ve always done. <br /><br />When I was quite young my mother would read to me. During my childhood we made weekly trips to the public library for books to borrow even though it was a bit of a drive from our house. My parents read a newspaper everyday, and my father usually had a book on the go. I had a small shelf of books in my bedroom.<br /><br />I recall in grades 5 and 6 we pupils had to write a short essay (maybe 500 words?), memorize it, and then recite it in the annual school-wide public speaking contest.<br /><br />Guessing at the meanings of words was not on. I was given a Collins dictionary at a young age and was expected to use it. That was later replaced in senior public and high school by a Webster’s, a Funk & Wagnalls, and two science dictionaries, along with a non-dictionary Roget’s Thesaurus to spice-up the mix.<br /><br />Our position in the class system during the ‘60s? I’d say we were somewhere in the middle-middle to lower-middle class. My parents grew up in the working class, and their families had a hard time during the depression and WWII. Neither started life with a college degree, although at age 40 my father went to night school to get one.J D Lowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07907821767203109311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-28676411283708610432022-11-11T09:17:45.724-06:002022-11-11T09:17:45.724-06:00As the podcast says, some kids just catch on. But ...As the podcast says, some kids just catch on. But many don’t. About phonics we’ll have to disagree.Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-342547517704240752022-11-11T09:09:07.208-06:002022-11-11T09:09:07.208-06:00thank goodness i never grew up with phonics. and i...thank goodness i never grew up with phonics. and i do worry about education today!!!<br /><br />my father was a professor so we also grew up with books -- lots of them everywhere. there was no tv in our house until the early 70's. <br /><br />in third grade, our teacher promised a book to the first 3 students who could recite their multiplication tables. i wanted that book so bad!! someone else beat me to it but i did really learn my tables and can still today do them very fast or do math in my head quite quickly.<br /><br />we seemed to have raised a nation of students who can't read but also spend their whole life looking down at their phone and "liking" something. <br /><br />and don't forget that not only can they not read they can't write.<br /><br />kirstenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com