Dyslexia Specialists Call For Phonics, Early Literacy Screening In
All Schools
ABC
Mid North Coast: 8.18.2019 by Emma Siossian
Starting
school can be a challenging time for children and their parents, and for some,
the stress and anxiety continues long after the first weeks.
Melbourne
mother Karlene Elkin said her eight-year-old son struggled during his first
couple of years at school. He was eventually identified as being dyslexic.
Ms
Elkin said by then, her son was already well behind and his self-esteem was in
shreds.
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Calls
for explicit phonics teaching
Parents
and dyslexia experts are calling for the introduction of explicit phonics
teaching and early literacy screening in all schools.
They
say without that approach, dyslexic students like Ms Elkin's son will continue
to fall through the cracks, and suffer both academically and emotionally.
At
the moment, the best way to teach children to read is the subject of ongoing
political debate in Australia, dubbed the 'reading wars'.
Some
schools favour a 'whole
language' approach, which advocates immersing children in literature, so
they can learn to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words from their context.
Others
support synthetic, or explicit phonics, a more direct way of teaching reading
and sounds. READ
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