tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post8855682927821495414..comments2024-01-06T14:47:27.687+00:00Comments on Susan Price's 'Nennius' Blog: The Importance of StorySusan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-26900758761620438432022-07-17T15:48:31.064+01:002022-07-17T15:48:31.064+01:00Thanks foor writing thisThanks foor writing thisOakland Garage Door Repairshttps://www.garage-door-experts.com/us/garage-door-installation-california/oakland-garage-door-repairs.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-75097926235356084112013-01-06T09:57:37.147+00:002013-01-06T09:57:37.147+00:00What you said, coz!
And Pauline, what you said too...What you said, coz!<br />And Pauline, what you said too! Before I took part in the adult literacy class, I had never really appreciated just how painful and inhibiting it is to be labelled 'illiterate'. The class members covered as wide a spectrum as you could imagine, and there were a variety of reasons for their lack of success in reading, but they all felt humiliated by it, even though they were bright, articulate and successful in other ways. I remember two of them telling me - and laughing over it together - about how many visits to the class, over weeks, it had taken before they found the nerve to go in. Another said she only came because she could slip in a back way, and never had to ask directions to 'the class for people who can't read' and never had to be seen going in by anyone else.<br />It made a deep impression on me because I couldn't - and can't - think of anything I would find it that hard to talk about.<br />I also had a friend - a very intelligent, articulate man - who was in the 'remedial class' in Secondary school. He was lucky to have a very good teacher who helped him a lot. His breakthrough came because he was mad about cycling, and the teacher found him a book about Tommy Armstrong, the great British cyclist who won the Tour De France. My friend so wanted to read that book that he fought literacy to a standstill, and ended by knowing it almost by heart!<br />Context, engagement and motivation!Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-61488477184870172762013-01-05T19:57:18.281+00:002013-01-05T19:57:18.281+00:00Hi
Great explanation.
Context, context and conte...Hi<br /><br />Great explanation.<br /><br />Context, context and context !! Tony Blair should have said that instead of education, education, education!<br /><br />I've done some work over the past couple of years with a disabled adult man (58 years) who was a life long analphabetic and who believed he'd never read. In addition, his parents and carers also believed he'd never read. However, using a computer for practice and Halliday's functional grammar, he can now read simple texts and signs. <br /><br />Think about all the classroom texts which could switch some readers off just by the title. The first real text for this learner was about someone having trouble with his boss when wanting to swap classes in a disabled workshop. "Yes!!!! He said. My boss is just like her! (The administrator in the story). From then on we had his attention. <br /><br />It's so easy. Why will education policy makers not listen and plough funds in to addressing this real and indentifiable problem instead of more phonics programs and grading assessments? OK, I know, a learner needs phonic awareness, but that comes later once he/she sees the point of it.<br /><br />manxliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-84139849264186921602013-01-05T18:26:53.736+00:002013-01-05T18:26:53.736+00:00Susan, what you're saying here is so important...Susan, what you're saying here is so important, and you say it so clearly. As the mother of a now thirty-nine year old son who is dyslexic, I know how painful and distressing reading can be. My son's first finished book was Lord of the Rings. The power of story is what dragged him through - paragraph by paragraph and line by line it had him hooked. Pauline Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826696982301252524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-49550741328205141822013-01-05T13:27:29.213+00:002013-01-05T13:27:29.213+00:00Thanks Joan! - and Penny, that's it exactly! T...Thanks Joan! - and Penny, that's it exactly! That's all part of it.<br />It's a two way thing - the child is learning about context.<br />One thing I do remember about learning to read is being praised by a teacher for reading 'Once upon a time' with no hesitation. I did it because I saw 'upon a' which I could read, and immediately guessed that, since it was at the start of a story, it was 'Once upon a time...' If I hadn't had so many stories read to me, I wouldn't have been able to do that.<br />Being practiced in the patterns, the contexts of talking and story-telling helps in learning to read. It's not just 'A is for Apple, B is for Ball...'Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-66750679843406890452013-01-05T12:27:49.957+00:002013-01-05T12:27:49.957+00:00Agree, agree, agree - and Blott made me laugh!
It...Agree, agree, agree - and Blott made me laugh!<br /><br />It's also important for children to be read to/share stories with grown-ups even when "they can read". I recall a reading expert who said something like "children should hear the stories they can't yet read read aloud to them so that they can learn about the language (and therefore reading) they will meet in the future." Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-34137620441184885612013-01-05T12:08:14.550+00:002013-01-05T12:08:14.550+00:00Important stuff here - thank you for posting!Important stuff here - thank you for posting!Joan Lennonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15763862159032836768noreply@blogger.com