Luqman's musings

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.