Michael Rosen criticising phonics again- and me this time!
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 6:44 pm
Someone just kindly alerted me to a blog posting by Michael Rosen, famous children's author and poet.
Michael Rosen goes to extraordinary lengths to undermine phonics teaching and in 2012 he headed up a petition against the statutory Year One Phonics Screening Check in England - signed by 90 other children's authors and illustrators:
http://www.theguardian.com/education/20 ... ading-test
Clearly Rosen knows nothing about the importance of phonics teaching and the importance of children being able to decode new and unknown words in their reading material. Perhaps he should stop writing his blog postings long enough to do some wider reading on the research on reading instruction and the importance of explicit phonics teaching to enable all children to read.
He has discovered an article I wrote for the 'Primary Matters, A Teaching English Magazine' that goes out to members of NATE (National Association for Teaching English) and rather than contact me directly to enquire about phonics teaching for spelling beyond infants, he decided to write a blog posting for which he has deliberately disabled the 'comments' section.
He doesn't really want to find out more about phonics for spelling then, does he!
http://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.co.uk/ ... l?spref=tw
Michael writes:
Michael Rosen goes to extraordinary lengths to undermine phonics teaching and in 2012 he headed up a petition against the statutory Year One Phonics Screening Check in England - signed by 90 other children's authors and illustrators:
http://www.theguardian.com/education/20 ... ading-test
Clearly Rosen knows nothing about the importance of phonics teaching and the importance of children being able to decode new and unknown words in their reading material. Perhaps he should stop writing his blog postings long enough to do some wider reading on the research on reading instruction and the importance of explicit phonics teaching to enable all children to read.
He has discovered an article I wrote for the 'Primary Matters, A Teaching English Magazine' that goes out to members of NATE (National Association for Teaching English) and rather than contact me directly to enquire about phonics teaching for spelling beyond infants, he decided to write a blog posting for which he has deliberately disabled the 'comments' section.
He doesn't really want to find out more about phonics for spelling then, does he!
http://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.co.uk/ ... l?spref=tw
Michael writes:
He reveals that he doesn't know about comprehensive phonics teaching or he would not have highlighted his list of words above. Does he not know about spelling alternatives and pronunciation alternatives? It appears as if he has a limited understanding about the English alphabetic code and its complexities.So, as I sit and wonder how to spell the words in this sentence, phonics might help me to spell 'so' 'I' 'sit', 'and', 'spell' 'how', 'in', 'sentence', 'phonics', 'help' but it wobbles when it comes to 'yes', 'as', 'the', 'wonder','to', 'words','might', 'comes'.