Is your school reading boring?
December 19th, 2006
I have been working with kids in Australia for four years and before that I worked in Scotland for longer than a care to remember. During this time I have been given tons of primary school homework sheets and I can honestly say that very few of them were even remotely interesting.
So they expect you lot out there to want to learn to read when what they give you to practice on is so outstandingly not worth reading.
And then there are all these tedious questions about what the text you have been given to read. Why are you all being given this stuff? Does anyone out there ever read it before they give it to you? How on earth is this stuff supposed to make you want to learn to read?
There are so many brilliant kids authors about. Whey are we not using them to write the school homework sheets?
Please tell me if the stuff you are getting is interesting or if it’s so boring you want to set fire to it. I promise to post the most boring and recommend the most interesting.
And if you tell us what you would rather be reading we’ll try to arrange it.
We can write here at dyslexia-testing.com.au and we can pretty well guarantee to come up with better stuff than we’ve been seeing.
Entry Filed under: Dyslexia
2 Comments Add your own
1. Liz Ditz | January 18th, 2007 at 9:43 am
I have another question: why is there such variation in the English-speaking countries on the early diagnosis and remediation of dyslexia?
2. Dawn Matthews | January 22nd, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Understanding of dyslexia not only varies from country to country but from school to school and teacher to teacher. This is mostly due to the fact that studying dyslexia, and how to teach children with it is not mandatory in most training colleges. It is frequently given as an option and those who choose this option sometimes become very interested in it and go on to be great teachers for these kids. Those that don’t can actually go through their whole teaching career never having to learn about it.
It seems very odd to me that a condition effecting as many as 15% of the school population (according to the Orton Dyslexia Association) does not have to be studied by every teacher. Also of cause a teachers interest and expertise depends on what books or materials they have studied. Not all books are as easy to follow and understand as mine are.
The best teachers are those who have a known dyslexic in the family or who are themselves dyslexic. And yes I’m by no means the only dyslexic teacher. Dawn
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