October 20th, 2009
And is the same technique performed all voer the world, particularly in developing countries, for to increase the literacy rate there?
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I learned to read by learning phoenetics; each letter (or certain combinations of letters) represents a particular sound. You put the sounds together to ’sound out’ the word. From words, we progressed to recognizing entire phrases at a glance, from reading letters to reading words to reading ideas.
For a while, there was a fad of teaching children to recognize ‘whole words’ and not learn the sounds associated with each letter. This seemed very stupid to me and I hope this idea has been abandonned everywhere. I had a poor fellow in my (college) German class who was taught by this non-phoenetic method, and he didn’t have clue how to figure out pronounciation by deciphering the spelling of the word into sounds.
the specific technique was that my mother constantly read to me and showed me sight words.
Schools used and still use different techniques.
I learned using phonics, but some schools used whole language and found out students can’t spell, so they are trying to do a little bit of both.
I don’t think there is one method, but if your professor is fishing for an answer my guess is he is expecting phonics.
I have found that having a full range of technique knowledge is the most useful way to approach reading education.
I have seen that the auditory learners thrive on phonics because the sounds are easy for them to remember but that that does not always equal good spellers. In fact, consistently the worst spellers I have worked with are the ones that lean way to the auditory learning style, yet they are the top readers.
By contrast, the visual learners find it faster and easier to read a whole word at a time rather than memorize all those spearate sounds. They struggle more with reading, often making wild guesses at words or unique connections such as reading “tin” as “iron” (one of my first graders kept doing this because his siblings are studying chemistry at the moment and he has knowledge that tin and iron are both metals). These visual learners do hit problems when they come across new words to read; however, they are fantastic at writing compositions with few spelling errors and they catch the errors of others faster than the phonetic-oriented auditory learners.
So, through personal experience, I am in disagreement with many if the stereotypical ideas that are currently out there about phonics and sight reading. I think the two techniques each have their own set of pros and cons and that learning styles play a more significant role in the successes and failures of each.
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