How people think reading should be taught

•Phonics- One of the most well known methods of English language.

•Children start to begin to learn the alphabet, they learn the names of the letters and how to pronounce the sounds that they make.
•Once they have learnt the sounds of the letters they can then begin to blend two letters together to then make simple words and then eventually move onto three then for then so on.
•Sentences that get the best outcome with pronunciation are for example ‘the cat sat on the mat’.

•The look and say-Children learn  to recognise whole words or short sentences rather than individual sounds.

•When a child looks at a word that we sound ,in return the child will repeat the sound(the word).

•To help flashcards with single words on them are used for this method and often are teamed up with a picture.

•If you do not include pictures the child will make guesses at what the words are and won’t learn from this.

•By having several flashcards you can then make the child group these words to then form a sentence but you include the conjunctions ‘and’ and ‘the’ for order and form to make proper sentences.

• Modern psychologists developed this idea of wrote memorisation. Some children can become weaker readers if they are  forced to read , but with this learning method the teaching skills benefit the children.

•The language experience- This approach uses the child's own words to help them read.

• The child would draw a picture of Dog in the basket/Underneath the picture you write ‘Dog is in the basket’.
•If you continue by collecting the child’s drawings and keep writing short sentences for example a picture of a cat could read ‘ the cat sat on the mat’.
• By letting the child read through these they learn and develop their vocabulary and also increase communication between you and the child.
•The context support- When the child is learning how to read it is really important to pick the right books that interest them by doing this it encourages them to enjoy learning with you.
• There are particular books that are designed for this method of reading , you will find a longer sentence on one side of the page and on the other side has a single or a two or three word  for the child to learn. Whilst you read the longer sentence the child then reads the simpler option.