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To read from such an early age? Isn’t it too soon?
NO! A child that is learning to talk doesn’t know that he’s learning: he talks! The same goes for a child that learns to read in a natural way, he doesn’t know he’s learning: he reads!
The brain of a child works in learning how to read in very much the same way it does for everything else since they are born.
buy shoes | Air Jordan 6 "Barely Rose" Expecting July 1st Drop , SciakyThe child sees a lot of texts around him, which he (initially as photos) associates with certain words. He sees the sign METRO or Carrefour written above the hypermarket he goes to weekly and, without hesitation, he associates the written sign with the pronunciation of the word. It goes the same for a lot of other words they see written and ,,know” how to read: a car brand, the name of a character, the name of a TV channel, the name of a newspaper or magazine he always hears about, or his own name.
A very small child has infinite possibilities of memorizing. Maria Montessori has illustrated this concept very well in her work, comparing the brain of a child with a sponge that absorbs water.
The child makes assumptions about reading and writing in the same way in which he builds hypothesis about everything that surrounds him. Thus, we can (or better yet, we should) organize his environment in such a way that his theories gradually get closer to reality.
Some parents are irked about the following: their children know the sound for ,,H” and ,,orse”, but they cannot read ,,horse”! They are still at the stage in which they are able to read separate letters, but cannot see the link between them. A little patience! This too will come soon enough, in time.
We have to continue cutting words: ,,ba” from ,,bananas”, ,,ca” from ,,car”. A lot of parents are baffled to discover that, although their children know how to read the letters ,,v” and ,,i”, they cannot necessarily also read ,,vi”. For a small child, such a thing is not a natural occurrence; on the contrary, it’s very difficult if he has not been trained. What seems to be easy (but in this case, abstract) is not necessarily easy to understand. A child is used to and does well in complexities since the day he was born.
But let us remember that he is comparing facts! He has nothing to compare in ,,b” and ,,a” is ,,ba”; that is a rule, a reason he cannot yet make on his own. In order to understand a rule, he must first discover it himself.
The child that knows enough words, that knows the sounds corresponding to letters, is capable of doing that which so many educators struggle to teach: b+a= ba, so-called by specialists <
In order for him to understand that b+a= ba, the little one needs to be able to discover the following:
- The sound/letter correspondence of ,,b” (from the words: balloon, baby, banana…)
- The sound/letter correspondence of ,,a” (banana, Natalia), but, at the same time before proceeding to the understanding of the consonant- vocal fusion of ,,ba”, he has to be able to recognize:
* on the one hand: balloon, bite, bunny (same consonant, different vocal),
* on the other hand: balloon, cartoon, mama (different consonant, same vocal)
At that time, the child will surely have all the right elements needed to learn the rule of the consonant- vocal fusion, and the famous ,,click” will soon follow!
We recommend you also read the ,,Project READING- WRITING” article.”