Students have different reading styles. Not every student learns what they are reading the same way. If you make all the students do the same thing, then it is going to be difficult for them to stay on the same level. When kids are first learning how to read, there are two major groups of ways to learn how to read. Some kids understand and get the sounds of letters and words and can learn words by sounding them out, while other kids will always struggle with sounding out but are very good at memorization and the site of words.
This interest came from a class I took last year. It was a class from Idaho that was an Education class that was completely about students and reading. I see classrooms changing to this approach in the future. The approach is that reading is involved in every subject, whether it be math or english. We were taught how to involved reading in areas like math and how this truly makes the students better overall readers and they understand the subject, like math, a lot better. I find this very interesting.
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Hi, Anne. Because my daughter is six and continuing in the process of learning to read, I also find this important and fascinating. Kids use all kinds of techniques to figure out words. Sometimes phonics work; sometimes using the picture works; sometimes they can figure out the meaning based on the rest of the sentence. I think kids should be able to use all the strategies they can! I have heard that some programs require the use of one strategy. For example, there is an assessment where kids just have to sound out meaningless words as an indicator that they can read. I think that method separates kids from the real process of reading. That scares me. Luckily, we haven't encountered that method yet. Nancy
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