Teaching Of Reading
Sir, —It was encouraging to read Mr D. J. C. Pringle’s article “The Teaching of Reading." For too long the phonic method of teaching reading has been considered “taboo,” but now the pendulum which swung so sharply to “look-and-say” methods, making them the exclusive way to teach, is swinging
back to a far greater use of phonic teaching. Surely phonic teaching is the simple, logical method. Otherwise we are using the system that was in use before the invention of the alphabet: learning one word after another after another. To teach children the sounds of letters is to give them the “tools of trade” with which to work out reading words. As it is now, children guess at the new word, or feverishly hunt for a “clue” in the illustration. We are denying children a sense of achievement in their reading ability, and developing a reliant attitude which can extend into all their work. —Yours, etc., TEACHER. January 6, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30954, 10 January 1966, Page 10
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163Teaching Of Reading Press, Volume CV, Issue 30954, 10 January 1966, Page 10
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