Why are Letters and Sounds manuals already gathering dust on the shelves of the staff and resources rooms in so many schools? Admittedly L&S is an improvement on some of the rubbish the government has allowed to go out in its name previously – remember the ALS? – but it’s still a very long way… Continue reading Why Letters and Sounds doesn’t work
A survey, commissioned by the ‘Communication Champion’ Jean Gross, has just revealed that, apparently, nearly one in six children has difficulty learning to talk. How the word ‘difficulty’ is defined is not made clear, though in any population, one would expect there to be a quantifiable number of children who make relatively slower progress in… Continue reading Girl and boy talk
Why does what Gabriella (see previous posting) says ring true? For two reasons. First, my own niece, an Italian from a town close to Bologna and who attends a liceo (an Italian high school)there, came to live in this country for two terms – her mother thought it would polish up her spoken English. She… Continue reading The Reader Gets Angry II