how do we learn to read?

Question

i am writing an essey of 1000 words about how we learn to read.

Answer 1

Good for you.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

There is no easy answer. How we learn to read depends on :

1. How old the child is.
You can’t teach a 7 month old child to read the same way you teach a 5 year old. For one thing he/she will not understand spoken rules. The fact still remains that such children can and do learn to read in parallel with learning to speak. That is because the earliest years are THE time for language acquisition.

A rather sad example of this is an 11 year old boy I once taught. He was very willing but couldn’t read. Now in fact he had a number of difficulties but the one that held his reading up was that he could not follow a spoken explanation (eg ‘look at the last letter of the word) so I had to ask him to choose between words such as ‘lens’ and ‘lend’ until he got used to looking at the last letter. Eventually he was only a year behind the rest of the class which for him was a real breakthrough


2. How is the written language constructed?
Reading Chinese and English require different strategies. There is absolutely no way a Chinese child learns the alphabet first

3. Who does the teaching?
It could be a teacher, a parent or the child itself

Also you must understand that the set of techniques a child uses to read at the age of 5 to 10 is not the same set of it will use at 25 to 30. The idea that one method will do for all ages is wrong. It wont. That is why some people insist on saying you can’t teach a child under 2 to read in spite of the fact that even to my knowledge the occasional parent has been doing this for 200 years. The method has to be appropriate to the age and development of the child.

If you are teaching a preschool child my recommendation would be to use ‘Look and Say’ gradually introducing the idea of phonic rules just before the child goes to its primary school. You don’t want to be teaching the same rules in a different way, but it’s not a bad idea to make the child aware that there are rules.

Answer 4

I work with 5 yr olds. First they learn the alphabet, through phonics they recognize which letter makes which sound. Gradually they must put 2 letters together A-T, at! Throughout the school year they have learned to put much larger words together. If you look up teacher resource websites they give lesson plans for a preschool- k teacher. They are very helpful and self explanatory.

Answer 5

We never used Dick and Jane. We had other books that introduced new vocabulary words for us. I do have an updated book put out by someone in Canada who bought the rights to the D and J books. Or they may have already been in the public domain and that's how the did it. They have been true to the watercolor and drawings and they are very interesting. Edit: The family bought a K car. Dick has two boys and a new dog named Spot. Grandma (mother) is alone as Dad died and she sold the farm to a chemical company and she is very envolved with her bowling group. Sally is into arobics , sky diving and never married. I think Jane is a stay at home mom. The original animals have all passed on. My book is in storage and I don't remember anything else.

Answer 6

In addition to what has already been said - relating to letter sounds / blending to gether to read words etc,

it is very important that children have good listening / discriminating skills starting at a basic level ie hearing sounds and being able to identify them ie car plane etc.

then move on to rhymes, learning rhymes, being able to offer words which rhyme.

then onto sounds (not yet linked to the written letter) in words blend / breaking up words .

when children have the verbal / listening skills, you then start with the phonics skills that others have already listed.

In the UK - the government have just released ' letter and sounds' which highlights a lot of pre reading / reading skills. If you are in the uk it would be a good document to quote from.

Answer 7

I would say learning to read is a long process that begins in infancy.
*Sounds discrimination, listening to words and language, are part of a baby's development. They gradually learn that certain sounds have specific meaning, like mama, dada, milk, cookie.
*Young children begin to recognize environmental print, which includes recognizing common logos, signs, and symbols as well as words. WalMart, McDonald's, STOP, EXIT, are common first words that young children "read".
*Children gradually come to understand that letters are symbols that represent sounds, and words are symbols that consist of those letters (symbols) put together to represent things, actions, etc.
*A smart person never stops learning to read! They will always be hearing new words and building vocabulary by using a dictionary or computer or asking questions to learn to read and understand new words!

Hope this helps a little!

Answer 8

Exposure to the written word - I was brought up behind my parent's news agency and looked at/read everything on the shelves - including soft porn. But I was an early reader!
I was always an inquisitive child which, when I went to primary school, at age three, I always asked questions and wanted to learn! - encouraged by my parents.
If we are in the right environment ( parents, school, friends and "environment") we will learn given the stimulus of our environment.
I know I have repeated the same word but it is important.

Answer 9

Learning to read is really natural. We really need a lot of time for people to learn to read and write. Some mothers / nursery teachers uses some of these methds to teach. They first draw the alphabet in the proper order. They draw it on one big paper forthe children to understand. The teacher pronouns the letter for a long time and asks the child to repeat. They do these into all the letters in their alphabet and they start to teach them the combinations of the sounds of letters but mostly with vowels in them. Remember, reading comes with writing!

Answer 10

Learning to read is a process,
Listening, talking, learning names of things, animals, things around the house, colors and sounds things and animals make. I beleive that learning to say words and sentences, and recognize pictures and eventually recognize words, is the way it goes. Thats the way I taught my daughter, and it seems to be working with my grand kids. Good luck

Answer 11

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