Teachers work in big boxes and many do not think outside of the box. There used to be the primary and secondary school boxes and never the two groups of teachers would ever meet to get their act together.
Now there is the elementary school box that is trying to turn literacy into rocket science. But the answer to modern teaching lies in the past. There is little new to be learned.
Small children have a limited view of the world with self focus. They know about their parents, brothers and sisters, going to school, their teacher, going to town, swimming in the river, helping parents at home, their best friend and playing games.
Their learning of vocabulary follows the same path. They only need about 60 basic words in elementary study.
All are centred on their self focused lives - to, from, with, and, mummy, daddy, brothers, parents, house, school, food, swim. river, dog, cat, bird, frog, hat, open, door, walk, school, friend, teacher and more. Children tend to absorb and retain such words like sponges.
All are centred on their self focused lives - to, from, with, and, mummy, daddy, brothers, parents, house, school, food, swim. river, dog, cat, bird, frog, hat, open, door, walk, school, friend, teacher and more. Children tend to absorb and retain such words like sponges.
They can learn these by chanting, word recognition and reading patterns of sentences. As the child becomes adolescent, their view of life expands to wider fields. So too the words they need to know.
The elementary students focus mainly on single syllable words leading into two syllable words but now the primary school students have to read and write more complex words on wider subjects.
The elementary students focus mainly on single syllable words leading into two syllable words but now the primary school students have to read and write more complex words on wider subjects.
Then the child becomes a senior primary or high school student and has an expanded view of life moving into other focus. They have to become more theoretical in their knowledge with ability to discuss the economic problems of the nation, domestic violence, values, alcoholism, terrorism, honesty and sexuality.
Their knowledge of words has to increase year by year. The answer was provided in past decades by derivation of words from the Latin and Greek.
Porto - portus (I carry)
Carry across - transport
Carry in - import
Carry out - export
Carry down - deport
Carry back - report
Jacio -jectus (I throw)
Throw in - inject
Throw back - reject
Throw down - deject
Throw out - eject, ejaculate
Throw forward - project
Pello - pulsus ( I drive)
Drive out - expel
Drive back - repel, repulse
Drive forward - propel
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LATIN FOR PNG STUDENTS
They learned to spell by understanding prefixes, roots and suffixes - trans-port-ation, de- script-ion, pro-pell- or. The blending from elementary school has been left far behind. They have to express more complex ideas in sentences which takes them out of a focus on simple sentences. There are hundreds of words based on Latin and Greek.
Teachers of the past learned the big picture of student learning from psychology. The psychologist Jean Piaget set out how students moved from childhood to adolescence and adulthood through concrete concepts moving to abstract concepts and abstract words. Please click:
Jean Piaget - Biologist, Psychologist, Scientist - Biography.com
In the past, teachers applied the basic axioms of learning that teachers should proceed from (1) simple to complex (2) known to unknown, (3) concrete to abstract and (4) part to whole.
This is still the very basis of learning. Elementary teachers must not turn phonics into a rocket science study that still leaves the slower students behind.
There is no need to blend words with fancy symbols for early elementary students if most of the words are single syllable - house, car, dog, cat, mat, sat, fat, bat, rat, tall, small, wall, ball, hall, school, pool, tool, fish, dish, mad, sad, bad, van, ran, can, pan, man and many more.
Their knowledge of words has to increase year by year. The answer was provided in past decades by derivation of words from the Latin and Greek.
Porto - portus (I carry)
Carry across - transport
Carry in - import
Carry out - export
Carry down - deport
Carry back - report
Jacio -jectus (I throw)
Throw in - inject
Throw back - reject
Throw down - deject
Throw out - eject, ejaculate
Throw forward - project
Pello - pulsus ( I drive)
Drive out - expel
Drive back - repel, repulse
Drive forward - propel
Please click:
LATIN FOR PNG STUDENTS
They learned to spell by understanding prefixes, roots and suffixes - trans-port-ation, de- script-ion, pro-pell- or. The blending from elementary school has been left far behind. They have to express more complex ideas in sentences which takes them out of a focus on simple sentences. There are hundreds of words based on Latin and Greek.
Teachers of the past learned the big picture of student learning from psychology. The psychologist Jean Piaget set out how students moved from childhood to adolescence and adulthood through concrete concepts moving to abstract concepts and abstract words. Please click:
Jean Piaget - Biologist, Psychologist, Scientist - Biography.com
www.biography.com/people/jean-piaget-9439915
7 days ago - Learn more about scholar Jean Piaget's four stages of childhood mental development and his other groundbreaking contributions to the field of ...In the past, teachers applied the basic axioms of learning that teachers should proceed from (1) simple to complex (2) known to unknown, (3) concrete to abstract and (4) part to whole.
This is still the very basis of learning. Elementary teachers must not turn phonics into a rocket science study that still leaves the slower students behind.
There is no need to blend words with fancy symbols for early elementary students if most of the words are single syllable - house, car, dog, cat, mat, sat, fat, bat, rat, tall, small, wall, ball, hall, school, pool, tool, fish, dish, mad, sad, bad, van, ran, can, pan, man and many more.
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