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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So I've got an average kid (not gifted, no special needs). He also does some guessing of words from context and pictures, but the teacher tells me they are taught these methods, in addition to decoding. In fact, she says parents do a disservice by always telling the kids to sound it out, as there are more strategies than that one. I thought that was interesting[/quote]

Yes, my son's teacher said that using those strategies (guessing from context and pictures) is fine at his level (K).  It may be more of an issue later on.  I do notice that when my son tries to sound out words, he will correctly make the sound of ever letter, but then have trouble blending it into the word.  Either the long/short vowels are wrong, or he just can't extrapolate because the letter sounds are not exactly identical to the pronunciation of the word.  [/quote]

Ah yes, but for the early dyslexic reader, they need explicit instruction in how to identify whether there is a long/short vowel sound, and practice blending and segmenting letter sounds.  Now that he has had appropriate instruction (for him), DS can actually explain WHY a word sounds like it does -- "it's a closed syllable so that means it will be a short vowel sound, but if it had an "e" on the end it would change to a long vowel sound."  DS has a sibling who was an early reader and is now in high school.  To this day she can't explain why words sound the way they do, to her they just do.

FWIW, in MCPS there is very little actual teaching of decoding or phonics.  Kids are taught the initial sounds of letters in K.  They are really not systematically taught short v. long vowel sounds, blends, or other systematic letter grouping sounds.  In first grade, there is still very little "decoding" or phonics teaching.  They basically read aloud in reading group and are expected to implicitly make the association between what they hear and what they see on the page.  For the majority of kids, this approach works fine.  But for many others, it doesn't.[/quote]

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