Luqman's musings

One of the commenters on Nitu Bhojwani's post had said: “Assertiveness is a state of Balanced Emotions. It's a way how you constructively use your Anger.” When you write as I do in a blog there is no place for anger. One may get angry when talking or discussing with another. However when one writes a blog one is usually calm and collected. I usually write whatever I want to write and check it again before posting it the following day. As such I can be assertive without being angry.

Here are extracts of a talk given by Sue Lloyd who is a committee member of the Reading Reform Foundation of UK. You may listen to the whole talk here .

Here is Ms Sue Lloyd's response to my first email. She is a committee member of the Reading Reform Foundation UK. 16 Nov at 17:14 Dear Luqman Michel, Thank you for your interesting email. I think the reading problem comes when children are asked to memorise words and not decode them. When strong systematic synthetic phonics is used, in whole class situations and intervention for the slow-to-start, then all the children become good at decoding. 

Here is my first email to Ms Sue Lloyd. I have now decided to post all correspondences to and from Sue and me here in this blog. Please read my earlier post before reading this. Bear in mind the following sentence from the first post;   "This teaching has now become known as synthetic phonics because the children are taught to synthesise: that is, blend the letter sounds to work out the words for themselves."

I chanced upon a lady who is a phonics proponent and we wrote a few emails to each other. She stopped the discussion midway saying that she is busy. I will share with you the gist of our emails in later posts.  Meanwhile, her website is definitely one that all teachers should visit and learn from. It is an excellent website for all academicians. I will park this article here temporarily before moving it to my main page at www.dyslexiafriend.com.