Word of the Day: Part 3

With the first word, "calculate", Christy recalled it used in reference to her church adding a new building. That's pretty good for eight years old, isn't it? Terrance realized he'd heard the word "syllable" before in reference to reading and that his name has two syllables. The rest of that day we counted syllables in words in each content area.

Christy has developed a love for learning words with more than two syllables!

These are children who are in ESY every year to complete those old Mangold readers with piles of worksheets. I hate worksheets and so do the kids. I've suggested using other resources like this in conjunction with the old Mangold texts for braille readers as suggested by experts like Diane Wormsley, but--in the mind of this teacher-- since the idea came from me it doesn't matter what the experts say. The teacher in that class says that she has been teaching braille for 42 years and she doesn't want to change.

It doesn't matter how the kids learn. Some teachers would rather children learn the way they teach rather than the other way around. My husband likes that insanity definition for such cases. You know the one that goes, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."