Learning To Read

Question 1

Phonics approapch

Answer 1

Looking at letters and letter combinations in terms of sounds, so children sound out unfamiliar words
E.g. Cow is made from /c/ and /ow/

Question 2

The “look and say” approach/whole word approach

Answer 2

It involves recognising whole words by sight alone, rather than breaking them down into separate phonemes.

Question 3

Advantage of the phonics approach

Answer 3

Useful for words like “latch” that are pronounced as they’re written.

Question 4

Disadvantage of the phonics approach

Answer 4

• Not useful for words like ‘through’ which aren’t pronounced as they’re written.
• Only focuses on sounds and letters and not meanings

Question 5

What does the whole word approach focus on

Answer 5

Meaning of words, and teaching children to recognise common words like “see”, “went”, etc.

Question 6

Disadvantage of the “look and say” approach

Answer 6

Relies of method requiring children to memorise a large number of words, and doesn’t give them the skills to work out the sound/meaning of unfamiliar words

Question 7

The psycholinguistics approach

Answer 7

Sees reading as a natural development that comes from being in an environment where books are read, valued and available.

Question 8

How does the psycholinguistics approach work?

Answer 8

It’s an active approach to reading, where children are made responsible for working out the meaning of a word (not told).
They are encouraged to work out the meaning using the rest of sentence and cues from illustrations.
This are also encouraged to focus on the meaning and the importance of context.

Question 9

Criticisms of the psycholinguistics approach

Answer 9

It leaves a lot to chance

Question 10

Why do teachers use a combination of approaches

Answer 10

Children respond differently to each approach.

Children can develop a range of skills (1 looks at symbols, 2 and 3 look at context and meaning).

Question 11

What must occur for children to better improve their reading abilities in school?

Answer 11

They need to practise outside of school

Question 12

What technique is used for developing reading skills for children up to 5 years old?

Answer 12

Caregivers read stories and nursery rhymes

Children enjoy physical experience of books (e.g. Turning pages, sounding words, pointing letters)

Question 13

What technique is used for developing reading skills for children between 5 and 6 ?

Answer 13

Caregivers/teachers read them fiction and non-fiction and get them to break down words into phonemes.
Get them to match sounds with letters.

Question 14

What technique is used for developing reading skills for children between 6 and 7?

Answer 14

Caregiver/teachers get children to read aloud, set tasks involving speaking, interacting and reading and encouraging them to talk about what they’ve read.

Question 15

What technique is used for developing reading skills for children between 7 and 8?

Answer 15

Children introduced to different genres and are provided with the chance to discuss different aspects of what they’ve read.

Question 16

What reading development during preschool prepares children for identifying letters and combos of letters?

Answer 16

kids prepare for reading by specific activities which help them distinguish sizes, shapes and patterns

Question 17

Other than letter identification, what other skills are taught in preschool?

Answer 17

• turning book pages and creating stories

- identification of individual letters, and matching letters to sounds.

Question 18

How do children develop in reading between 5 and 6?

Answer 18

• increase number of sound-letter matches they know
• realise directional principle
• recognise common words

Question 19

How do children develop in reading between 6 and 7?

Answer 19

• Can read familiar stories
• Use many read strategies (eg context to guess word meaning)
• Recognise more words by sight
• Break down words into individual sounds to read unfamiliar word
• Start to read with more fluency

Question 20

How do children develop in reading between 7 and 8?

Answer 20

• They read more fluenty, and vocab increases
• Use reading strategies accurately (predict next word in sentence)
• Better at working through individual sounds to read an unfamiliar word.

Question 21

What reading skills develop after learning to read (until 18)?

Answer 21

• become familiar with a wider range of texts
• read to learn
• able to use more complex and varied texts to find out info without help
• read in different ways for different ways

Question 22

What can also occur after learning to read fluently?

Answer 22

• progress stops
• learning to interpret and read critically is never achieved
• because people stop read unless they have to

Question 23

Why is it important to continue to learn how to analyse and criticise literacy?

Answer 23

They can select the most important points from a text and develop their own opinions about them.