Is teaching children to read letter-by-letter really a good system?
By ArienKing
@ArienKing (4647)
India
February 17, 2007 11:41am CST
There is evidence that people don't actually read by sounding out each and every letter - that they in fact read the words' meanings first, and then translate the meanings into sounds. For example, how do you know how to pronounce the word 'house' until you know whether it's a noun ('my house is made of brick') or a verb ('we cannot house you tonight')?
1 response
@pamsofivikal (15)
• Philippines
17 Feb 07
i am a teacher and i believe that most of the time children learn reading easier if they relate the word to their day to day experiences. In teaching terminology, there are 2 ways to learn how to read, the top-to-bottom and the bottom-to-top. the first is the letter-by-letter and the second is life experience or what scholars called the "schema" Letter-by-letter reading is mostly done with unfamiliar words with unfamiliar sounds and cannot be related to the reader's day to day experiences. For me, the best way to teach children is to show them the two ways in which they can appreciate and learn to read. :-D
