Right way to read?

Jul 25

A comparison between two approaches to teaching beginners how to read: The Whole Language Approach and The Phonemic Awareness / Phonics Based Approach. I have broken down this episode into a part by part deconstruction of the Whole Language Approach and explained why I would always choose to include Phonics and Phonemic Awareness and teach it as a go-to before using any context clues. By no means is this comprehensive. A comprehensive overview would take me hours but this is meant to be a resource for parents to be able to understand how their kids are being taught to read, be able to ask the right questions when looking at curriculum and methodologies and be able to guide their children at home with a little more confidence. As always, I LOVE questions and comments. I encourage you to send me your comments by leaving them on the Blog page or by emailing them to me at Noelle.y.bowen@gmail.com.