The Science of Reading

[@THomasJPeel]

Excellent video! Have a nice day and smile!

[@krisbscott]

Love this clear and concise information with great visuals! Can't wait to share with teachers!

[@ebross7945]

This is amazing! I love the research and science behind this! IT IS AMAZING!

[@WAHIDSALANDA]

Great Madam we really appreciate your hard work for bringing up todays children in reading and writing. thankyou sooo much from Pakistan

[@beverlysimple411]

What a wonderful presentation. Thank you

[@LogicofEnglish]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@sarahsimms8229]

This is an amazing presentation. I wish all teachers would know this already. I am a school SLP who has known most of this stuff and I have children in elementary who have had to memorize hundreds of sight words and decodable frequent words… it has been a painful journey. My youngest has a stronger foundation as he is getting the new curriculum that has focused more on phonics and his spelling is now better than his older brother. Phonological awareness and phonics are how you teach reading in grades k-2 without a doubt.

[@louisethomas8074]

When you teach blending sounds for phonological awareness lessons do you use nonsense syllables

[@kristenporter3349]

Could you kindly provide the title / author of the Stanford study comparing the adult learners.

[@LogicofEnglish]

References have been added in the description above. Thanks!

[@kristenporter3349]

@@LogicofEnglish Thank you :)

[@kristenporter3349]

Thank you!!!

[@elizabethduffy9605]

This is an awesome presentation! I love your enthusiasm for reading. I would absolutely love to take some of your courses. Do you offer online courses? Do you have notes for this presentation that you can share?

[@cketheridge2643]

So should we still teach sight words?

[@hbhenglish6855]

Great videos as always. Here's an unrelated question: How do I explain the words 'beard' and 'board' to my students. The phonogram 'oa' and 'ear' can't be applied here, I guess. Are these sight words? Could you help me? Thanks.

[@pearlgirl]

Personally I find 'Beard' and 'board' follow the sounds of bossy 'r's. The word 'beard' has two ways it can sound. Either 'ear' sounds like 'beard' or like in 'bear'. The word 'board' has only one sound 'oar'.

[@Barsik-M]

1:14 I did not understand. Seems like you pronounced the same /i/ Russian sound both times.

[@Barsik-M]

@@LogicofEnglish Thanks for explanation. I think Russian is one or two steps easier in phonetics than English. Sounds are very apart. I assume that were Russian /и/ and /ы/ which are kind of analogy of English /i:/ and /i/ sounds. But you did not pull off the /ы/ sound well enough,so I didn't hear the difference. But it's ok.

[@desmondlittle6676]

Hey what should I do i am completely on unprepared for life. I didn’t learn anything in school and I feel like everything I learned in school has fallen out of my head or maybe I didn’t really learn anything school that stuck and now I’m a 30 year old man with not that much knowledge I’ll say my education level is at fifth grade at best I literally forgot how to spell fifth. I know for a fact that I would have a very hard time trying to make it in the real world. I don’t know how to support myself like a functional adult.😔😢 what do you think I should do? I’m helpless on my on. And i am at the mercy of my relatives. I have more say but I’m going to save it.

[@pearlgirl]

Desmond Little Go for it! I hope you are well underway. I strongly feel that You too can succeed if given the right sequence. [e-mail]

[@garyraab9132]

Important information... However, I have to ask how much would a super smart baby’s brain learn from the speed and style of this presentation?...what about slow learning adults! how much of the knowledge can a learner retain, when endlessly interspersed with ...that’s great that’s wonderful isn’t that exciting I am so excited Silence is golden. Because we teach brains, not kids, every educator should read. Scatterbrain Invisible Gorilla Once we have the brain figured out, once we have determined how children learn to read, then we should consider the usefulness of fancy digital literacy innuendo. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Humans have been boiling water for centuries and know about the necessity of safety precautions. If Will has a message with a different meaning, why not just say it like it is! A T G C and sometimes U, are the code letters of the most important alphabet.

[@davidmagee9]

English is the lingua franca; English is an amalgam of many different languages grouped together over time. It continues to grow with new words often newly created or borrowed from other languages added daily As a result it is rightly classed as a deep orthography language - very often there is no correlation between the written and spoken word: Worcestershire (wuster). And there are many contradictions, read/ read (red), height/weight. This is a massive elephant in the 'science of reading' room, which this presentation, nor any arguments for this methodology, address.

[@desmondlittle6676]

What about adult learners

[@desmondlittle6676]

I have nobody to help me with this program can I taught myself this programs? I have a problem remembering what I hear. I want to learn the phonogram and the spelling rule really fast because I’m a 30 year old man and I want to get out my situation because I’m back against the wall right now and I want to go to school and get a degree. I’m just not prepared for life right now and I want a lot out of life.

[@johnsels4077]

...that is, If a Spanish speaker can not speak in English first, he or she is not able TO READ. Is that true????