Hello all !
Please tell me what you think of this book ?
My daughter is 7 and has Autism, which comes with the language difficulties she has. She has been having trouble learning how to read. She aced through learning how to say out the phonetics but had trouble blending. She wasn’t able to hear the word unless I was saying it.
After many months, I came across “How to teach your child to read in 100 lessons” and she’s progressing very well ! The book uses a technique called sound blending, so rather than chopping up sounds /b/a/d/. You sound blend then /b/aaaaaaaa/d/. From this approach my daughter could hear the sound and like I said, progressed really well.
However, my daughter’s teacher does not agree with the approach. She said it’s confusing her to blend one sound together. She’s worried my daughter won’t be able to pick up the individual Sounds by sound blending. But when I asked my daughter to spell “bed” for example, using the sound blending approach, she was able to spell it correctly.
I don’t know what to do. I thought my daughter hit the holy grail as she’s been having trouble reading and we’ve finally found something that works. But I don’t want to set her up for literacy difficulties !
Please tell me your views regarding this approach and sound blending ? I don’t know if I’m setting up my daughter to fail.
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IloveDisneyxxx · 17/02/2018 14:44
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