Re: Overcoming the Stigma of Poor Reading Skills

Chris Roland

Posted on 10/28/10

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I completely agree with both of you on these posts. My own
example to students, to show them how reading fluency and
practice are linked, would be:

Read my students 30 seconds in English and ask them how easily i
seemed to read it on a scale of 1-10.

Do the same with 30 seconds of Spanish, where my pron is dodgy
and I stumble over the odd word.

Do the same in Arabic, where my reading becomes laboured and
disjointed.

I would then explain to them that this is because I've spent
thousands of hours reading in English, hundreds in Spanish and
probably only a couple of hundred only in Arabic, thus making
the link between practice and reading skills explicit for them.

Chris

Posts on this thread, including this one

Overcoming the Stigma of Poor Reading Skills, 8/04/10, by Jo.
Re: Overcoming the Stigma of Poor Reading Skills, 8/04/10, by Cathy.
Re: Overcoming the Stigma of Poor Reading Skills, 8/04/10, by Christy.
Re: Overcoming the Stigma of Poor Reading Skills, 8/04/10, by Teri.
Re: Overcoming the Stigma of Poor Reading Skills, 8/04/10, by Jo - thank you.
Re: Overcoming the Stigma of Poor Reading Skills, 8/27/10, by Mae in Texas.
Re: Overcoming the Stigma of Poor Reading Skills, 8/29/10, by Before I read all of the responses.
Re: Overcoming the Stigma of Poor Reading Skills, 8/29/10, by Jo.
Re: Overcoming the Stigma of Poor Reading Skills, 10/22/10, by Bump.
Re: Overcoming the Stigma of Poor Reading Skills, 10/27/10, by Sara.
Re: Overcoming the Stigma of Poor Reading Skills, 10/28/10, by Chris Roland.
Re: Overcoming the Stigma of Poor Reading Skills, 2/14/11, by Robben Wainer.