The above image is from my keynote address. It summarizes the key points of my addressOne of the best explanations of the foundations of scientific inquiry was made by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. The YouTube video is less than 2 minutes. Please do have a look and listen. A lso Please do feel free to leave comments on this post about the whole issue of how to teach literacy to our students.
This is maddening, and why so many parents give up on this debate. On a single slide you mangle an idiom, miscapitalize a common noun, and misuse a trademark — while arguing for higher literacy standards. For the sake of our sanity, please fix these.
Where was a copyright misused?
I spent 10 of my 50-plus years in education as a parent liaison. It was an unpaid position I had as part of my Title One teaching/staff development work. In working with parents, I found they were most interested in what works for their child. For phonics, the answer varies by child. Some children THRIVE on direct instruction, like the instruction you find in synthetic phonics programs. Dyslexic children NEED direct, explicit phonics instruction. However, some children do not need explicit phonics instruction. They need the kind of instruction found in analytic phonics programs. That form of instruction requires implicit instruction. What the hundreds of parents I’ve worked with over the year wanted was to get their child into the kind of phonics instruction that they can succeed in is
As for your remark about giving up on the debate because you find my writing style maddening, it is quite acceptable to capitalize words for emphasis in less formal settings, e.g., presentations or blogs. If I were writing these ideas for a journal article, I would use a different writing style.
In the next reply to your comment, I’m posting blogs I’ve written about Seidenberg’s latest remarks and about my thoughts on why the pendulum of instruction continues to swing.
Still waiting to hear what the copyright issue was.