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Grammar and Linguistics > Why don īt we teach 3 year olds (Thailand) the sound of the letter insteat of the letter first and then the sound?
Why don īt we teach 3 year olds (Thailand) the sound of the letter insteat of the letter first and then the sound?
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foose1
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Why don īt we teach 3 year olds (Thailand) the sound of the letter insteat of the letter first and then the sound?
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I wonder if any of you have tryed to teach the younger ones the phonetic sound rather than the sound of the letter first? I see kids a little older struggling to come up with the phonetic sound when trying to read basic words and wonder if it would be better to teach agh, baa, caa, etc. first rather than A, agh, b, baa, etc.? Has anyone tryed this method and was then outcome? Joh |
14 Mar 2012
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ueslteacher
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Aren īt they taught together though? BTW here in Ukraine, in the kindergarten, we are supposed to teach an oral course, i.e. no letters. Sophia |
14 Mar 2012
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I teach them together also but I start with the sound then the letter name, e.g., agh - a, ba - b. Saying the sound first helps more when they learn to read. However, I think that teaching young children the sounds only will make it hard for them to learn and use the letter names afterwards. |
14 Mar 2012
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ueslteacher
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I remember my first year as a teacher. Right after graduation I worked in a private Christian school with first-graders. They used an American programme and when we taught them the alphabet, we used different positions of the letter in different words
(phonics) and pictures + a song and a rhyme. E.g. The teacher would say (showing a picture of letter a)"ei" reads "a:" + a picture of armadillo "armadillo" "ei" (a) reads "ei" + a picture of an ape - Rhyme: "The aging ape was out of shape because he ate and ate and ate" (with moves to illustrate) etc. And the students were accumulating the knowledge like a snowball which rolls and becomes bigger and bigger, each time adding more words and more letters and rhymes, when they finished the alphabet, they could sing all those songs for each letter and sound. Sophia
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14 Mar 2012
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foose1
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Thanks for your suggestions. John |
15 Mar 2012
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