The non-intuitive reading students might be called
analytic learners since they must go from learning square one to
square 100 in exact order. They cannot skip steps like the intuitive
students do. They must be taught and then through practice
consolidate that teaching in a very explicit structured sustained
and branching manner to gain long-term skills, abilities and
knowledge of what they have been taught.
Reading Example: five things must be mastered in reading
- phonemic awareness to hear the sounds correctly, rules of phonics
to be able to understand what sounds to make, vocabulary to
understand intellectual concepts, comprehension to be able to put
words together and fluency to be able to read at the speed that the
learner thinks, leaving no time to be distracted. Intuitives can
jump over some of these and still read, non-intuitives must master
these in order or they will not learn to read well.
Some students learn intuitively and master reading and
fundamental math even before starting school. Many non-intuitive
students never learn to read or do math well. These students who do
not learn in the first few grades are very much at risk of dropping
out in middle or high school since they do not enjoy school, it
makes them feel stupid. These students can be taught to read and do
math if they have the right approach. We know what that approach
should be from peer reviewed published research.
Non-Intuitive students must have
interventions
that provides this explicit, structured, sustained and branching
methods. Even more important is that technology now allows us to
work with only what a student needs and to monitor exactly what they
have done. With these programs each computer click is a formative
assessment. Teachers, administrators and parents can see what each
student does minute by minute.