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Retraining as a math teacher here, so I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how kids learn stuff at the moment. At one point in the article it states that
by hazbot 2y ago
Retraining as a math teacher here, so I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how kids learn stuff at the moment.
At one point in the article it states that indeed the trio of semantic/syntactic/graphophonic cues are used by readers. The article kind of dances around the point that even if these cues tend to be used by competent readers, it doesn't mean that training them directly is how novice readers need to learn.
I'm really coming round to this belief that there is no substitute for the "rote" drilling of basic skills.
- d110af5ccf 2y ago> "rote" drilling of basic skills I think it depends on the nature of the task for which the skill is used. But I agree. There are certain things that are just not realistic to master without rote drilling of some sort of supporting material. At the same time I think rote drilling gets a bad reputation because poor teachers will tend to fall back on it in instances where it isn't particularly useful. I personally had a low opinion of it until university, where I encountered two independent topics where it was clearly necessary.