Ginn New Reading 360

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Does anyone elses school use this? DD1's school does and I can't find any info. on it.

Our school uses it amongst others. What did you want to know about it?

We've had some in the past . dc's school use a cross section of schemes.

We use it as one of three combined schemes.

When DD gets stuck with words she guesses them, she doesn't appear to sound words out. They don't appear to get taught phonics. I asked her what they do in class, she says the teacher says try the word and if it is wrong she tells them what it is. I assume this scheme is not based on guessing and wanted some more info to try and understand the whole thing.

We use Ginn amongst others. It uses sight recognition not phonics to build up a vocabulary. The first books are full of words like 'here' and 'come' which are not decodeable and classed as 'tricky' words. She shouldn't try to sound these out.

Hi - my little boy gets these and they are pretty much stories based on the core words that they need to learn e.g. here, come, help, mum, dad. stop etc etc. My DS is just grapsing the concept of sounding words out so will probably move onto something like ORT alongside it. Its been great for my DS because it has supported his learning of some of the core words they need to learn (think they call them high frequency words and they need to learn something like 50 before the end of reception).

Ginn 360 are whole-word readers. All schools should be using decodable books along with the synthetic phonic teaching method, now.

www.aowm73.dsl.pipex.com/dyslexics/main_method.htm

My ds's old school had these - they can be very damaging becasue they encourage children to guess at words ratehr than sound them out. Children find this much easier initially so will do it from preference and then an take longer to learn toblend quickly and easily.

My ds, who is otherwise an excellent reader because I taught him phonics, muddles up 'like' and 'look' because his school taught him those by 'look at the first letter and guess' before he really understood the 'split digraph' in like.

Children should not be taught the high frequency words by guessing, most are phonically decodable and the rest should be taught as 'tricky' words becasue most bits are decodable.