Trade training
Sir,—There is another factor that affects the literacy and numeracy of trade training students. It is the lack of memory training in primary schools. Memory has become a dirty, unfashionable word. The only place where memory training is used assiduously, is in the stupid reading teaching methods where children learn the same repetitive words and sentence forms, often without looking at the page. Logic and experience convince me that children should learn repeatedly, the names and shapes of individual letters and then the various sounds (in simple phonetic words) that need to be remembered to form a base for the harder sound-combinations and more difficult spelling later. How can you expect a child who can not spell or recognise “but” to be a trade training candidate? Teachers tell children that “but” and “and” are hard words because they do not do anything. — Yours, etc., (Mrs) JOAN RIDDLE. August 11, 1984.
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