Early Childhood Reading Strategies

[miazagora]

Reading curriculum is available for free at Progressive Phonics (dot) com. Progressive phonics uses phonics as well as some sight words (words that can't be sounded out). It teaches the "rules" along the way as well (such as, when two vowels go walking the first one does the talking). It's also scripted. And it's free to everyone who wants their child to read. I taught two of my children to read with it.

[wowitzkate]

@exceedingreading @miazagora @mainefolk

Children need to develop concepts about print, book handling skills, story concepts, use cueing systems, etc and by saying this is how NOT to teach a child to read only proves your ignorance of DAP and stages of development. I suggest learning about how to teach novices and broaden your perspective of literacy and reading before criticizing others.

Oh, and there is more to reading than print-based text, btw. (Like reading body lang & environmental print)

[gegebird]

@wowitzkateSo whole language teaching is goo but limited because not all children will learn to read in this passive way. Some just keep on guessing what the word is based on the first letter and picture. Avoiding explicit phonemic instruction is an out dated teaching practice. If you make it seam hard by keeping the code (phoneme/sound grapheme/letters relationship) secret children will become to scared to try.

[gegebird]

@gegebird Children enjoy playing with phonemes so this should be easy to teach. Show children how to break words up into manageable chucks and sound them out

[miazagora]

@wowitzkate Oh, whatever. "DAP" strategies smategies. Who cares? People learned to read LONG before "DAP strategies" - and they read much more complicated texts at earlier ages. (Ever gone on Google books and perused the readers children used back in the 1800's and early 1900's?) As for learning "how to teach novices" - I HAVE taught all three of my children to read early and above grade level. I suggest you take your "environmental print" and stick it where the sun doesn't shine.

[angiemanzano]

@wowitzkate Actually the 3 cueing systems does not hold up to research. Google 3 cueing systems and you will see it has been proven that only poor readers use multiple cues to figure out words, and only because they can't decode well.

[miazagora]

Pretty good, as long as the kid never reads a book without pictures. Progressive Phonics is FREE and it's even scripted, so anyone can use it. Progressive Phonics (dot) com!

[jengagnon78]

It is unfortunately how they are teaching children how to read in schools now. Many of us don't think it's good but it seems to be working. I think it's the whole word approach it's not teaching them phonetically... Mom is using some phonics when she says it starts with C. Children's brains actually "take a picture" of the word so once they look at the word "food" their brain can remember it says food. So she IS learning to read just not the same way as most of us know Phoneticly Great job MOM

[miazagora]

Let's see how well the kid can read in a few years. Let's look at the literacy rate in schools and how many of the kids that are great readers had parents who gave them extra help by teaching the phonetic sounds of the letters and blends, and how many had parents that read to them as small children. If a kid learns the word "food" merely by sight, it can easily be confused with many other words with similar shapes (tall-short-short-tall). It's a load of nonsense. No wonder illiteracy is up.

[gegebird]

@miazagora Well said.

[immunetocommonsense]

@jengagnon78 When I started to look for ways teaching my now 3 year old (it is her birthday today)to read stumbled over Dolch. I was immediately skeptic. Phonics is using logic (sometimes not) and skills vs. to memorize. Memorization is in the most cases not the best learning approach.

[exceedingreading]

This is far from 'a wonderful strategy'. This is teaching the child to 'read' the pictures. When the picture books and reliable text changes to chapter books with authentic text, far too many children are lost. We MUST teach our children the code of print: PHONICS. This way children learn to read text without pictures and guessing. Teach children the consonants and vowels to sound out the full word and they can read anything. This demonstration is how you SHOULD NOT teach a child to read.

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

Mainefolk is exactly right. This child isn't learning to read. This child is learning to identify objects in pictures, a completely different skill.

[ARBIH87]

@BruceDeitrickPrice logographic stage:P

[tinytech1013]

@BruceDeitrickPrice Picture clues help beginner readers to make sense of what the letters are saying and can help beginner readers know if they sounded the word out right. Which is why beginner reader books have pictures and simple sentences. Identifying objects is a skill students need to match words with pictures. And many words have to be memorized by sight because they don't follow simple phonetic patters (like "is" where the "s" makes a "z" sound).

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

@tinytech1013 Recent NAEP scores show that kids are mostly below proficient--that is, they are illiterate! Why? Because all these bad ideas continue to be used.

Samuel Blumenfeld said he thought there shouldn't be a picture used anywhere. They take kids down a false road.

HIs and is do illustrate a pattern--that sometimes s is pronounced z. Kids should memorize this interesting pattern, not the visual shapes.

Bruce Deitrick Price

Improve-Education org

[mainefolk]

I wonder if you have tried a completely different approach: synthetic phonics. Try Jolly Phonics or Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons or Blend Phonics, available free on the web. Search the web for info. Strategies used in this video draw the child's eyes AWAY from the words; they hide the fact that writing is code for speech; they encourage guessing. If a child can learn to sound out the first letter of a word, she can also be taught to sound out the middle, & on to the end.

[immunetocommonsense]

@mainefolk Cheers mate, looked some of em up and jolly phonics looks good: Question Is there a difference in Phonics between br. and am. english?

[misselegance1991]

What a wonderful strategies!!!

I need to take a course in this>.Lovely