Learning to Read

Learning to Read

1. Baker and Freebody 1989

   • Written language takes up physical space
   • Line breaks occur but don't affect meaning
   • Repeatable
   • Permanent
   • Non interactive

2. Stages of Reading Development

   • Jeane S Chall (1983)
   • Pre-reading and pseudo reading
     • 0-6 years
     • Able to name letters
     • Write name
   • Initial reading and decoding
     • 6-7 years
     • Learn relationship between sounds/letters
     • Read short high frequency words
     • Understands 4000 words
     • 600 written words
   • Confirmation and fluency
     • 7-8 years
     • Increase in skill/vocab
     • 9000 spoken words
   • Reading for learning
     • 9-14 years
     • Reading gains knowledge
       • Pursues individual interests
   • Muplicity and Complexity
     • 14-17 years
     • Increasing complex reading material
   • Construction and reconstruction
     • 18 years onwards
     • Diverse range of texts read
     • Practical/recreation benefits identified

3. Teaching of Reading

   • Phonics
     • Focuses on lang sounds
     • Taught relationship between letters/sounds
     • Encoraged to deconstruct/construct letters via sounds
   • Whole word approach
     • Learns individual words as wholes

4. Synthetic and Analytic Phonics

   • Synthetic Phonic
     • Examines every spelling within words
       • Then blending together
     • Identify sound/symbol correspondence and blend together
   • Analytiic Phonics
     • Analyze sound/symbol correspondence
     • Consonant blends taught as units