Even though this video has strong religious overtones, (please let me know if it offends you, and I will provide an alternate assignment), it is useful for determining strategies that beginning readers use when becoming literate, even at age 50. Watch the video and reflect on what strategy or strategies Robin used most to help him learn to read.
This video is truly amazing! It is so inspiring that someone can accomplish anything that he or she sets his/her mind to. In the video, Robin used many strategies to help himself with his reading. I noticed that he typically looked for chunks or phonograms to help him determine a word. For example, when reading a sentence that he copied I think from a truck he saw, he noticed the chunk -est in the word "best," and he was able to figure out what the word was. He did this throughout the video looking for word families that he knew. It was amazing how this strategy alone helped him read the majority of the words that he did not know. I noticed that he did not do a lot of "sound out" of words. Instead, he drew on his schema and looked for chunks that he knew and then applied some phonics skills to determine the word.
Robin also used a lot of semantics when reading. Throughout the video he would make a miscue in a sentence, but after reading more words after the miscue, he would go back and self-correct, because he knew that what he originally said was not correct.
I also liked how he used real-world, practical examples to read. He used ads, email, and newspapers ad different sources to help him practice reading.
It is absolutely inspiring that he had the determination to learn to read at the age of 50.
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