Whole-word reading Archives

Let Your Early Reader Acquire New Skills One at a Time

Posted on July 13th, 2011 in Early reader, First grade reading, Kindergarten reading, Letter recognition, Reading strategies, Whole-word reading

When early readers begin to take on new literacy skills, it is important to remember that they need to assimilate a new rule into their repertoire before they can learn the variations on this rule. For example, when teaching young children that adding an ‘e’ to the end of a word turns a short vowel sound (a as in apple) into a long vowel sound (a as in cake), let them fully accomplish the use…

Kindergarten reading: whole-word reading approach

Posted on June 14th, 2009 in Early reader, Kindergarten reading, Letter recognition, Reading strategies, Whole-word reading

In many preschool and Kindergarten classrooms, the relationship between how a letter looks and how it sounds is taught by showing the child pictures of objects, telling them the name of the object, and then telling them what letter the object starts with (‘cat’ starts with C, ‘dog’ starts with D). Some children just do not gain language acquisition in this way; what if they just can’t remember that ‘cat’ starts with C? When children…