Tag: reading record
Phonics confuse slow readers
I love the English language and all its strange little ways – how it is perfectly unsuited to learning to read using an exclusive phonetic system. Take a simple word like Slow. Slow can be pronounced phonetically as Slough, like the town, or Sloe, as in the name of the fruit. If you come from…
Guiness Book of Records Reading Scam
On tuesday, “At 27 schools cross the capital, 2,735 children set a record by taking part in the biggest co-ordinated reading lesson, all enjoying Born to Run by Morpurgo at exactly the same time.” But take a look at the picture of one of the students featured in the Evening Standard Movie in this article,…