David Kilpatrick 'How We Remember Words, and Why Some Children Don't'

As a cognitive psychologist, Dr. Kilpatrick explains that with the right knowledge and tools, teachers can change lives since word-level reading is phonological in nature, and most reading problems are preventable.

[emilymalecdan]

Thank you very much for sharing this information.

[steelj]

If you aren't familiar with Orton Gillingham, it's worth checking in to! It is designed for students with dyslexia however it works for struggling readers without dyslexia. It really is an amazing program. It covers everything; sounds, blends, diphthongs, magic e, floss rule, schwa, ect (every skill students need, phonics, phonological awareness, ect.).

[Listan]

Your first chart showed and you mentioned kids who can decode well and have good phonemic awareness, aka they were great at nonsense words but bad at exception words. What do you do with these kids to remediate? Clearly there are some who just have a processing issue that interferes with efficient mapping and thus fluency.

[LearningReadingHub]

Being a native Spanish speaker myself, I think that I have finally understood why some children have difficulties with accents on words in Spanish! Our reading system is much more regular so decoding phonetically is normally not as problematic as in English… But some people go on their entire life having huge problems with accents - I think it all comes down to this memory process! I think about myself writing in Spanish and I don’t think about the accent rules anymore! The rules helped me understand and were my tool to memorise the most common words. But once I memorised the words I didn’t have to think about the accentuation rules anymore! Some people just never got that memory process right and keep having problems with accents throughout their entire life! interesting!

[janetbeatrice]

I love this - and would watch any video with David Kilpatrick in it. But I'm not entirely clear on how we help students who can sound out words but aren't getting to the point of orthographic mapping. I'm working with a girl with a low IQ who is very good at sounding out words, but she sounds them out almost every time she reads. So it appears that the orthographic mapping isn't happening, or at least not well. I get the impression from the video that the answer is to keep working with the phonics and phonemic awareness. Is that correct? Sorry if I missed something obvious.

[kathrynewton]

What research is there that you referenced, that supports the claim about moving from the 1st percentile to the 25th percentile?

[mlaine]

I learned English as a second language. I was never taught to sound out words.

[ninilovenana]

I want to purchase the book but I need to know more before I drop $100. Like maybe a table of contents. What kind of book is it? A lesson book. A book teaching me about dyslexia? Or language? A teachers manual? Are there worksheets? Is it a lot to know before teaching. I have nothing.

[LuqmanMichel]

‘Efficiently remembering words via Orthographic Mapping appears to require letter sound proficiency and phonemic proficiency.’ (Dr. David Kilpatrick.)
How do we explain how millions of kids around the world do Orthographic Mapping despite being taught letter sounds wrongly? Many kids around the world are taught consonants with extraneous sounds. How do they map words when they do not have letter sound proficiency?

[desmondlittle]

they are going to read at college level i believe that