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Phonics Literacy is a Necessary Part of Learning to Read
What sets humans apart from animals is language. It is language that enables us to think and communicate with one another. We form all our concepts through words.
If our thinking is confined to the words we hear and speak our intellectual development is
limited for it is through the written word that complex thinking is recorded and communicated.
The Alphabet is the foremost invention of all time. It has enabled hundreds of thousands of words to be invented to record and communicate human achievement.
Reading and writing have a language base. They are skills which contribute to personal growth and enable people to contribute to society in countless ways. Teaching reading strategies need to be specifically undertaken throughout formal education.
All skills have fundamental principles that underpin them.
When these principles are understood and mastered the skill can be established through practice.
To master any skill involves the correct form of practice and continuous effort.
We are not born with the ability to read and write. People need to be taught how.
I have been a teacher for over 35 years and have seen firsthand how many children and adults struggle with reading.
My experience within the school system led me to search for answers to this problem. It didn’t make sense to me that some very young children could read easily while older children, teenagers and adults struggle and give up.
There is a lot of research done into reading trying to find the answers why so many have trouble learning to read and some of the findings will be outlined in this blog.
One of the fundamental reasons many people have trouble learning to read is they do not understand how an alphabetic writing system works.
Understanding how The English Alphabetic Writing System works can be taught in a systematic way – step by step, one step at a time and in a relatively short time.
Learning the mechanics of reading and writing is like cracking a code. Did you know that all the phonics information you need to know can be outlined “on the back of an envelope”.
Once a person understands how to crack the code they can concentrate on the information the text presents. For we read to get information.
Reading and writing are skills and people master skills in their own time.
It is never too late to learn to read and write because they are not biological processes.
Learning how to crack the English Alphabet Code is not difficult. But you need the key!
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