Learning to read
- Created by: Megabyte
- Created on: 12-05-14 10:23
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- Learning to Read
- Teaching children to read
- Phonics approach
- Children sound out words in chunks
- More useful for phonetically spelt words
- Bad because it doesn't focus on meaning/ context
- 'Look and say' approach
- Whole word approach - recognise words by sight
- Focuses on meaning - learn familiar words quickly
- Relies on memory, doesn't teach them skill
- Psycho- linguistics
- Books are important!
- Active approach to reading
- Encouraged to work out meaning for themselves
- They become aware of context - look for clues in text / pictures
- Phonics approach
- Development stages
- Up to 5 years old
- Children play with shapes, bricks etc. to teach them sizes / patterns
- Verbally create stories (structure)
- Begin to identify letters / sounds
- 5 -6 years old
- Increased number of letter - sound matches they know
- Left to right, top to bottom
- Recognise familiar words
- 6 - 7 years old
- Read things they're familiar with
- Reading strategies (phonics)
- Read words by sight (look and say)
- Some fluency
- 7 - 8 years old
- More fluent, increased vocab
- Predicting words in a story
- Better at working out unfamiliar sounds
- Up to 5 years old
- Teaching children to read
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