A very interesting text about how we teach reading to kids! （值得一讀！）

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading

學界爭論不休的 whole language approach 和 systematic phonics approach，究竟哪一個有更多的科學理據，去支持成為較適合幼兒閱讀的策略呢？

Whole language approach 著重提供一個豐富的、包含讀寫聽說的語言環境，著重文字在文本中呈現出來的意思，鼓勵孩子運用思考力從不同的 cues（例如圖畫、上文下理、beginning sound）去猜估文字，講求make sense of language。孩子有學習 phonics 的，只是不完整也沒有系統。

．graphic cues (what do the letters tell you about what the word might be?)

．syntactic cues (what kind of word could it be, for example, a noun or a verb?)

．semantic cues (what word would make sense here, based on the context?)

另一套觀點則強調要 explicitly, systematically 教授 letter 同 sound 的關係，怎樣 decode words，即是在孩子初學習英語時，集中把 phonics 的系統循序漸進式地好好掌握。

香港的學校多是採用 whole language approach，而家長努力付費外補的多是 phonics。

文中詳細描述了能夠掌握有效 phonics 策略的學生是如何閱讀：

//Here's what happens when a reader who has good phonics skills comes to a word she doesn't recognize in print. She stops at the word and sounds it out. If it's a word she knows the meaning of, she has now linked the spelling of the word with its pronunciation. If she doesn't know the meaning of the word, she can use context to try to figure it out.

By about second grade, a typically developing reader needs just a few exposures to a word through understanding both the pronunciation and the spelling for that word to be stored in her memory. She doesn't know that word because she memorized it as a visual image. She knows that word because at some point she successfully sounded it out.

The more words she stores in her memory this way, the more she can focus on the meaning of what she's reading; she'll eventually be using less brain power to identify words and will be able to devote more brain power to comprehending what she's reading.//

近年很多學者從科學研究的角度證實 systematic phonics approach 對提升孩子閱讀能力更有幫助。

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其他參考資料：https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/03/27/case-why-both-sides-reading-wars-debate-are-wrong-proposed-solution/

Have a New Natural

“Everyone in my family dies before 60.”

“My father had heart disease so there is a high possibility that I will have it too.”

“Everyone grows old. It’s only natural that our energy level drops and our metabolism dips as well.”

You have memorized these natural mantras in your head and gotten so used to thinking and believing in a ‘natural’ way.

Actually, what the world calls natural are observable effects of the curse that is upon the world because of Adam’s sin.

If you are a believer, Jesus’ finished work at the cross has redeemed you from every curse.

“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.” (Romans‬ ‭8:2‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

You have been set free from the law of sin and death, and are now under the law of the Spirit of life. That means what is natural for you now should be all things pertaining to life and life more abundantly.

Your God is a God of miracles who opens blind eyes, heals the crippled, raises the dead, casts out demons, renews the youth of the old, saves from fire, gives superhuman strength, and much more.

If He does supernatural things, and we are reborn as His children, we should be doing the same things He does and thinking the same way as Him.

Let what is supernatural be your new natural. Expect miracles to happen and seek supernatural solutions from God.

See God’s heart of life and grace towards you in Jesus Christ’s 37 recorded miracles in the four gospels: https://bit.ly/messiahs-miracles

A twenty-year-old cat Genki is the household name in "Cats come soon when I call him" on YouTube. And he also likes to get on top of me. When I pat my belly, he comes easily. Some cats I had in the old days also like it. This black cat among cats I have now often does it. I've never taught him, but he has memorized the action without notice.
「呼ぶとすぐ来る猫」でお馴染みの元気君（現在齢20歳の高齢猫）は、飼い主の上に乗るのが大好きです。お腹をぽんぽんと軽く叩いて彼を呼ぶと、おいそれとやって来ます。昔いた他のにゃんこちゃんも乗ることが大好きでした。今いる猫達の中では、この黒猫ちゃんの頻度も多いかもしれません。一度も教えてはいないのですが、いつの間にか覚えてしまったようです。

小さい頃、車の中でお父さんがこの曲を聴いていたのを覚えています。
すごく綺麗なメロディが耳に残って、いつか歌ってみたいと思っていました。

I remember my dad listening to this song when he was driving.
I memorized its beautiful melody as a kid, and had been wishing to sing this song one day.

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This time we are going to learn some Spanish phrases. I will speak English first, then Spanish. I hope you will practice well and try to speak Spanish as soon as you hear English.

Phrases can't be memorized just by listening to them once, so it's important to practice them over and over again.

🇪🇸Learn 1000 Phrases in Spanish before You Sleep
https://youtu.be/rGZh1rnDtgo

This time we are going to learn some French phrases. I will speak English first, then French. I hope you will practice well and try to speak French as soon as you hear English.

Phrases can't be memorized just by listening to them once, so it's important to practice them over and over again.