Re: Need grammar, spelling help

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:48:32 -0400, Marie wrote:

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:09:13 GMT, toypup <toypup@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I agree that by age 9, the child should be past learning all the phonics
rules,

That's just it...when I teach reading, the kids learn all the rules in
the first year(which starts at age 4 or 5). Letter sounds have been
learned before the reading lessons and by being read to, many words
have become sight-words (like "the", "and", "bi-lo" and others ;o).
There are not years spent on teaching/learning phonics.
Marie

But if a child was in a very poor program that did not teach reading very
well? That is what OP is saying.

SIL was in a school where the teacher did not teach any math in 2nd grade
because the teacher did not like to teach math. (True story. It was why
IL's took the kids out of that private school.) Should she have been
expected to be at the same level as other 2nd graders at the end of the
year? Of course not. What would you do? Go back and teach it, of course.
.

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