Hoping someone will give me a steer on this please. ds is using Jolly Phonics & enjoying it, school use only this method for teaching reading.
When he brought home his first reading book (First Words) it was clear that he "knows" the words - ie he sight reads. He was reluctant to sound out a word that he already knows, eg box, sun, hat, man. Is this ok?
I absolutely understand that if you mix sight reading with phonics you start to undermine the principle of phonics, ie knowing your phonemes, graphemes etc in order to sound out pretty much any word, rather than memorising or guessing at the words. ds will, when tired or bored, often then just guess at a simple word rather than sound it out which is why I'm wondering if on principle he should sound out every word in his book.
But once you've sounded out "b-o-x" a few times then you are bound to just "know" that "box" is said "box" without having to work through the letters - is this the basis of free reading? That you don't sound out each word once you know that word, just for the sake of it, but when you reach a word you don't know instantly you can sound it out?
Sorry this is a bit garbled, hopefully someone will understand what I'm asking!
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another phonics / sight reading question for YR please
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DestinationUnknown · 19/10/2011 11:13
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