One big takeaway from all that research is that reading is not natural; we are not wired to read from birth. People become skilled readers by learning that written text is a code for speech sounds. The primary task for a beginning reader is to crack the code. Even skilled readers rely on decoding.
So when a child comes to a word she doesn’t know, her teacher should tell her to look at all the letters in the word and decode it, based on what that child has been taught about how letters and combinations of letters represent speech sounds. There should be no guessing, no “getting the gist of it.”
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One of the things teachers are doing to teach kids to read is by using sight words and it works. They have a list of sight words to memorize. Pretty soon they build a vocabulary.
One of the things teachers are doing to teach kids to read is by using sight words and it works. They have a list of sight words to memorize. Pretty soon they build a vocabulary.