WOW Courtney! I am a Wilson Dyslexia Practitioner with a private practice as well as an early childhood and special education educator. I am always looking to find new evidence, science based methods to teach in both my school and home practice. I have been very stumped on how to teach spelling and this video has given me techniques that I cannot wait to start using with my students. Thank you so much! XOXOXO
An 18 month old can learn the letter sounds by looking and instinctively biologically coping your facial movements. It is how we learn to talk. The ability to decode images meaning comes later. So sound walls are redundant. Just use your face.
Thanks for your comment! I don’t understand your first sentence- could you explain this more to me? Do you have a study I could review that attends to your point?
I have written a reply 4 times now and i keep accidentally deleting it! Thanks UA-cam! I'm working toward my PhD in developmental linguistic psychology in bilingual children. I have two masters in psychology already :). So to save myself messing up again. I am just going to collect a load of info in word document and send it over if you have an open email haha. As i am also a mum and Christmas is coming it might take me a while to get it done!
@ okay courtneyannebrewer@gmail.com - copy the doc into the text too just in case it gets flagged by the virus scanner. Also…INCLUDE YOUR WORK!! I’d love to read it!! And yes- I get the Christmas crunch! Best of luck- you’ll get it done! One step at a time ☺️.
Wow. Anything to justify that Masters degree. Honey, reading was never meant to be that complicated. Phonics taught by anyone with common sense will do the job. Stop confusing those poor children with all this pseudoscience nonsense and multisyllabic terminology and just teach letters and sounds, please. Stop overcomplicating a simple task to justify your advanced (but worthless) degree.
@@sallybucket6924 hi there! Thank you for your engagement. I’m not sure what your concern is- this information is meant to support teachers so they can navigate the research, and then from there the teachers boil it down and use that info to guide their age-appropriate practice. Pseudoscience, in this case, does not apply as this video is about terminology related to teaching reading in schools right now. I would love to keep chatting with you to figure out what your specific concerns are for children because I would bet we have a lot of the same ideas. What grade(s) do you teach? Please feel free to comment back and perhaps we can get to know one another a little better. Have a lovely evening! -Dr. B
@@courtneyannephd2618 Ha. I watched the Marxist progressives hijack reading while you were in diapers so I'm not impressed with the "scientific" approach that seems to support phonics. This old bird has seen it all. I taught high school English and realized nobody could read. Thanks a lot to all the ninnies with Masters degrees is Education who taught look and say back then. I home-schooled for 15 years and began with reading. It's not scientific when it's one on one. I used a Montessori approach with a movable alphabet and small objects. I also kept foam letters in the tub, used flash cards taped to the wall, refrigerator letters for them to play with and plenty of chalk for writing them. We would eat sleep and breathe those letter sounds- consonants and short vowels only at first. The main thing is: It's an oral exercise. All the time. Then I switched to a phonics primer from 1954 written by Hay/Wingo. Is that explicit and systematic enough? I made curriculum and used whatever made sense as long as it was systematic. I'm a bit of a purist that way. What gets me is that now suddenly the social scientists have made phonics into another doctoral thesis. It's intimidating to parents. Why all the hype? Why not just tell parents it's simple and not at all difficult to do at home? Stop using terminology that repels people and makes everyone feel inferior. No more labels. I've had enough of being talked down to. Especially when I have proven to myself how ridiculously easy teaching reading is. I am glad you have "seen the light." That's great. just try and stop confusing parents and kids with the "phoneme" stuff and the pictures of mouths on the wall. Abeka says "special sounds" and thank God, that's about as scientific as they get. Yeah I know all about digraphs and murmur diphthongs and all the rest. I also studied Charlotte Lockhart's course from the 1970s. That one is good for teaching older kids because they mark vowels and show patterns for word attack) And another thing. Teaching my own children was a completely different experience than a classroom teacher has to accomplish. I hear very little and see very little from your people about how to instruct the group. Phonics is 90% oral and I really don't see the emphasis on training teachers for the oral rigors of phonics instruction. Teachers today need to be told exactly what to do and how to drill these sounds to the group. You've got a couple of generations of teachers who are not phonics converts and have no idea how it's done. They are hostile and don't give a crap if anyone reads because (like so many have said to me) "it doesn't matter if everyone reads." Or my favorite quote from an elementary education clone was "Reading is just memorization."" Yeah. Thank you Dewey and all your progressive disciples at Ohio State. So honey, teaching reading requires common sense and not an advanced degree. All your labels and terminology will not help teachers teach phonics. You need to give practical instruction on how to drill the group. Phonics is an oral exercise. The simpler the better. Giving oral phonics instruction to a group of 6 year olds is a lot harder than you think. In fact, it's an art, like teaching itself.
@@sallybucket6924 I think we are both arguing the same point in some (not all) ways. Check out my other videos! I actually talk about making reading simple and what we can say to kids to keep things moving along. I believe I even talk about one-on-one versus whole group instruction and strategies that can get kids reading more and faster. The whole point of this channel is to bridge the gap between teachers and researchers so that we can serve our students better and so that teachers don’t feel left out of the conversations that affect what they do every day in classrooms. I hope you’ll find kind ways to express your ideas in the comments of other videos I have here on this platform. I think you may see that changes are happening in education that are similar to some of the ideals you have laid out throughout this post. And as always, if you have any peer reviewed research you would like me to look into, send it my way and I’ll have a read through it. Take care!
@@courtneyannephd2618 I am not unkind. I simply refuse to use the same kind of disingenuous diplomatic doublespeak that educators use to justify their profession. Plain language is all that is necessary. As far as your goal of reaching teachers with your channel, good luck. You won't be successful. These people cannot be won with such platitudes and kindnesses. Leaving them out of the conversation is exactly what needs to happen. They have wasted the lives and potential of thousands of God's children who will never be able to regain what was lost from those early sensitive periods of language development. Perhaps my confrontational speech is off-putting to you. So be it. I hope you are shocked. This is a war; not a tea party. Today's scientific interest in phonics is just another flash in the pan to these people. They don't care about reading. They will pretend to follow this drum beat for awhile and keep collecting their paychecks and just wait this one out. Then it will be back to business as usual. Just remember me when the pendulum swings back the other way. I will be standing on the same ledge saving my harshest rebukes for the people you will have tried unsuccessfully to convert with data and inclusion.
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WOW Courtney! I am a Wilson Dyslexia Practitioner with a private practice as well as an early childhood and special education educator. I am always looking to find new evidence, science based methods to teach in both my school and home practice. I have been very stumped on how to teach spelling and this video has given me techniques that I cannot wait to start using with my students. Thank you so much! XOXOXO
@@lisaraphael3871 oh goodness I didn’t realize you commented until now! Thank you so much for your very kind words! I’m glad you enjoyed the video!
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Thank you for your kind comment! I’m glad you enjoyed the video!
An 18 month old can learn the letter sounds by looking and instinctively biologically coping your facial movements. It is how we learn to talk. The ability to decode images meaning comes later. So sound walls are redundant. Just use your face.
Thanks for your comment! I don’t understand your first sentence- could you explain this more to me? Do you have a study I could review that attends to your point?
I have written a reply 4 times now and i keep accidentally deleting it! Thanks UA-cam!
I'm working toward my PhD in developmental linguistic psychology in bilingual children. I have two masters in psychology already :).
So to save myself messing up again. I am just going to collect a load of info in word document and send it over if you have an open email haha.
As i am also a mum and Christmas is coming it might take me a while to get it done!
@ okay courtneyannebrewer@gmail.com - copy the doc into the text too just in case it gets flagged by the virus scanner. Also…INCLUDE YOUR WORK!! I’d love to read it!! And yes- I get the Christmas crunch! Best of luck- you’ll get it done! One step at a time ☺️.
Wow. Anything to justify that Masters degree. Honey, reading was never meant to be that complicated. Phonics taught by anyone with common sense will do the job. Stop confusing those poor children with all this pseudoscience nonsense and multisyllabic terminology and just teach letters and sounds, please. Stop overcomplicating a simple task to justify your advanced (but worthless) degree.
@@sallybucket6924 hi there! Thank you for your engagement. I’m not sure what your concern is- this information is meant to support teachers so they can navigate the research, and then from there the teachers boil it down and use that info to guide their age-appropriate practice. Pseudoscience, in this case, does not apply as this video is about terminology related to teaching reading in schools right now. I would love to keep chatting with you to figure out what your specific concerns are for children because I would bet we have a lot of the same ideas. What grade(s) do you teach? Please feel free to comment back and perhaps we can get to know one another a little better. Have a lovely evening! -Dr. B
@@courtneyannephd2618 Ha. I watched the Marxist progressives hijack reading while you were in diapers so I'm not impressed with the "scientific" approach that seems to support phonics. This old bird has seen it all. I taught high school English and realized nobody could read. Thanks a lot to all the ninnies with Masters degrees is Education who taught look and say back then.
I home-schooled for 15 years and began with reading. It's not scientific when it's one on one. I used a Montessori approach with a movable alphabet and small objects. I also kept foam letters in the tub, used flash cards taped to the wall, refrigerator letters for them to play with and plenty of chalk for writing them. We would eat sleep and breathe those letter sounds- consonants and short vowels only at first. The main thing is: It's an oral exercise. All the time.
Then I switched to a phonics primer from 1954 written by Hay/Wingo. Is that explicit and systematic enough? I made curriculum and used whatever made sense as long as it was systematic. I'm a bit of a purist that way.
What gets me is that now suddenly the social scientists have made phonics into another doctoral thesis. It's intimidating to parents. Why all the hype? Why not just tell parents it's simple and not at all difficult to do at home? Stop using terminology that repels people and makes everyone feel inferior. No more labels. I've had enough of being talked down to. Especially when I have proven to myself how ridiculously easy teaching reading is.
I am glad you have "seen the light." That's great. just try and stop confusing parents and kids with the "phoneme" stuff and the pictures of mouths on the wall.
Abeka says "special sounds" and thank God, that's about as scientific as they get. Yeah I know all about digraphs and murmur diphthongs and all the rest. I also studied Charlotte Lockhart's course from the 1970s. That one is good for teaching older kids because they mark vowels and show patterns for word attack)
And another thing. Teaching my own children was a completely different experience than a classroom teacher has to accomplish. I hear very little and see very little from your people about how to instruct the group.
Phonics is 90% oral and I really don't see the emphasis on training teachers for the oral rigors of phonics instruction. Teachers today need to be told exactly what to do and how to drill these sounds to the group.
You've got a couple of generations of teachers who are not phonics converts and have no idea how it's done. They are hostile and don't give a crap if anyone reads because (like so many have said to me) "it doesn't matter if everyone reads." Or my favorite quote from an elementary education clone was "Reading is just memorization."" Yeah. Thank you Dewey and all your progressive disciples at Ohio State.
So honey, teaching reading requires common sense and not an advanced degree. All your labels and terminology will not help teachers teach phonics. You need to give practical instruction on how to drill the group. Phonics is an oral exercise. The simpler the better. Giving oral phonics instruction to a group of 6 year olds is a lot harder than you think. In fact, it's an art, like teaching itself.
@@sallybucket6924 I think we are both arguing the same point in some (not all) ways. Check out my other videos! I actually talk about making reading simple and what we can say to kids to keep things moving along. I believe I even talk about one-on-one versus whole group instruction and strategies that can get kids reading more and faster. The whole point of this channel is to bridge the gap between teachers and researchers so that we can serve our students better and so that teachers don’t feel left out of the conversations that affect what they do every day in classrooms. I hope you’ll find kind ways to express your ideas in the comments of other videos I have here on this platform. I think you may see that changes are happening in education that are similar to some of the ideals you have laid out throughout this post. And as always, if you have any peer reviewed research you would like me to look into, send it my way and I’ll have a read through it.
Take care!
@@courtneyannephd2618 I am not unkind. I simply refuse to use the same kind of disingenuous diplomatic doublespeak that educators use to justify their profession. Plain language is all that is necessary. As far as your goal of reaching teachers with your channel, good luck. You won't be successful. These people cannot be won with such platitudes and kindnesses. Leaving them out of the conversation is exactly what needs to happen. They have wasted the lives and potential of thousands of God's children who will never be able to regain what was lost from those early sensitive periods of language development. Perhaps my confrontational speech is off-putting to you. So be it. I hope you are shocked. This is a war; not a tea party. Today's scientific interest in phonics is just another flash in the pan to these people. They don't care about reading. They will pretend to follow this drum beat for awhile and keep collecting their paychecks and just wait this one out. Then it will be back to business as usual. Just remember me when the pendulum swings back the other way. I will be standing on the same ledge saving my harshest rebukes for the people you will have tried unsuccessfully to convert with data and inclusion.