...any good for helping a 4 year old learn to read???
I was given a box set recently...
Im after recommendations of books you have bought that has helped your 4 year old learn to read.
Thanks
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Peter and Jane books ...are they...
winterfox78 · 20/06/2022 22:57
Smidge001 · 20/06/2022 23:11
I loved Peter and Jane books when I was a child. And it's how we were taught to read! I don't understand the 'outdated technique' thing, I mean, a generation learnt to read that way. Maybe the new way is quicker, or works better for some, but clearly the old way worked too.
DecimatedDreams · 21/06/2022 02:11
The Peter and Jane books are a perfectly legitimate way of teaching children to read. There is a massive overemphasis on phonics, driven largely by the fact Ruth Miskin was shacked up with the Head of Ofsted when she wrote RWFI.
In order to become a reader, one needs to want to read, which is something a rigid phonics system ignores. The more effective system incorporates phonics, books and a general literacy friendly approach.
Sadly,most early years classrooms have thrown out big books, do songs on the whiteboard, neglect speaking and listening and spend so fucking long on phonics lessons I'm dying of boredom as an adult observer.
TLDR: read anything, it's more interesting than early years phonics lessons.
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