Pat Stone has worked with small children for 30 years, first as a play leader and then as a primary school teacher.
She has been a specialist reading teacher since 2007. Pat trained in Reading Recovery (RR) and now teaches ‘catch up’ reading but not in a school that is signed up to RR at the moment.
I have been interested for a very long time, in how children learn.
I taught my children to read before I trained as a teacher – what we did instinctively was very similar to RR.
I used to help my friend to learn reading and writing, when we were both 5.
I wrote this piece in response to people who think I teach children to guess, I get children to spend hours memorising ‘sight’ words, I read a book to them first so that they can memorise it, I don’t teach phonics…
Using Tiger, Tiger by Beverley Randell Pat describes in detail how she teaches reading.
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