Topics in Early Reading Coherence: Phonics Rules

Author: Sebastian Wren

Price: Online only
• Published: 1999

Available online: text, PDF

Children clearly need to be explicitly taught to sound out words -- to develop what some call "word attack" skills. That much is not in question -- what is in question is the best approach for teaching children the system that is used for decoding English text. Some advocate teaching children explicit rules, and showing the children how these rules can be applied to unfamiliar words (which for young children describes most of the words they encounter). Others argue that the human brain is not good at applying abstract rules -- what the brain is good at is finding patterns, and that instruction should exploit this pattern finding skill.

Related to the Subject

Reading and Literacy

Bookmark, Print, and Share

Print friendly

Don't Miss This Opportunity

What Does It Mean to Teach Reading Explicitly?
and
Adolescent Literacy: How to Access and

Comprehend Text
two professional development sessions led by Ramona Chauvin and Kathleen Theodore