VITAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ABOUT READING INSTRUCTION
 By Dr. Patrick Groff, National Right to Read Foundation (NRRF) Board
Member & Senior Advisor, edited by Losttech.com  

 Dr. Patrick Groff, Professor of Education Emeritus San Diego State
University, has published over 325 books, monographs, and journal
articles and is a nationally known expert in the field of reading
instruction.    
http://literacypod.com/vital-answers-to-questions-about-reading-instruction/


Isn\'t The Spelling Of English Too Unpredictable Or Irregular For The
Application Of Phonics Information To Work Well?
 No. True, there are notable exceptions to some phonics rules, e.g.,
the pronunciation and spelling of tough. Nonetheless, the notable
successes of direct and systematic phonics programs disprove the above
charge.  

Is It True That Many Children Cannot Learn Phonics Information?
 To the contrary, rarely is this so. Only the small number of
children with genuine central nervous system dysfunctions
experience
significant difficulty learning properly taught phonics information.  


 Many Schools Now Tell Children To Use "Invented Spelling." Are There
Any Dangers In This Practice?  

 Yes. To avoid frustrating these young pupils, they should be
provided words to read that their phonics training has prepared them
to recognize. Also, long and convoluted sentences should be avoided.
As children's reading abilities grow, these controls can be relaxed
progressively.  

Isn\'t The Spelling Of English Too Unpredictable Or Irregular For The
Application Of Phonics Information To Work Well?
 No. True, there are notable exceptions to some phonics rules, e.g.,
the pronunciation and spelling of tough. Nonetheless, the notable
successes of direct and systematic phonics programs disprove the above
charge.  
 On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 16:25:02 +0300, "Robert Iakobashvili"  wrote:    

     We (a team of people with dyslexia) have made, what we consider,
 a technological breakthrough in context
spelling.
 The start of new technology is a free on-line speller at
 www.ghotit.com [1], which is:
 - context-aware and context correcting;
 - phonetic;
 - copes with large editing distances;
 - iterative;
 - provides description sentences for spelling candidates;
 Text-to-speech for our web-site is available for Internet Explorer
-7.
 Testing at our large corpus of the texts written by the kids and
adults with dyslexia,
 we get above 90% of correction success, where the best editors are
 below 45%.
 Users are telling us, that they are really assisted by the site,
 and such references serve for us as a source of inspiration.
 Some people are considering Ghotit as the best spelling tool EVER:

http://reachingallreaders.wikispaces.com/Technology+Supports?responseToken=2b64321ae077d3b17ded7dec3bfa8143
[2]
 >From Teaching Every Student Ghotit received the title "the BEST
spell
 checker for
students"

http://teachingeverystudent.blogspot.com/2007/06/free-technology-toolkit-for-udl-in-all.html
[3]
 .
 Please, tell us, what you think.
 Thank you in advance.
 Yours faithfully,
 Robert Iakobashvili, Ph.D.
 coroberti at gmail.com [4]
 www.ghotit.com [1]
 Joy Hunder Lost Technology http://literacypod.com   

   

Links:
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[1] http://www.ghotit.com
[2]
http://reachingallreaders.wikispaces.com/Technology+Supports?responseToken=2b64321ae077d3b17ded7dec3bfa8143
[3]
http://teachingeverystudent.blogspot.com/2007/06/free-technology-toolkit-for-udl-in-all.html
[4] mailto:coroberti at gmail.com
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