Re: 2-year-olds reading?

argo wrote:
I have to admit that I feel gratuitously misinterpreted, and I don't
know if it is worth trying to respond but, hey, hope springs eternal:

Chookie wrote:
Well, that's precisely where I have the problem. *Anybody* learning reading
at *any* age is extending speech ability to the written word. The issue is
this high correlation that you mention. What do you mean when you imply that
speech is "highly correlated" with reading, and what is the evidence?
Creating meaning from visual input is different from creating meaning from
auditory input.

I guess it seems pretty obvious to me that writing and speaking are
highly-correlated. There is the lower-level correlation of letters (or
small groups of letters) to phonemes, at least in a "phonetic"
language like English, and the (related, but someone distinct) higher-
level correlation between written words and spoken words. By any
statistical measure, the correlation between these would be extremely
high. Writting, is, after all, just a later cultural addition to
speech, that allowed storage and alternative avenues of information
transmission (e.g., sending letters).

I haven't really got time to write a full post.

However early writing was based around pictograms: which means your suggested connection isn't there. There would appear to be more connections between sight and reading, then between hearing and reading.

[snip]

Of course, speaking as a scientist, proof especially is not an
absolute concept (only lawyers believe that). In that same spirit, I
take the ideas of native reading as useful and interesting ideas. Now
if Kailing had cooked up some "significant" p values from tiny sample
sizes (as many drug companies do) and claimed his notions "proved"
then I would have some serious objections myself, but he didn't do
that at all.

How do you think the subtitle of the book should be understood?

It is "How to Teach *Your* Child to Read, Easily and Naturally, Before the Age of Three." Not "how children can be taught", but a very specific title that implies *all* children can learn by the time they are three, based on the authors sample of two, related children.

--
Penny Gaines
UK mum to three
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