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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I do think a few of the K standards are either too ambitious, or not necessary. The standard that says students will know a letter NAME for every capital AND lowercase letter. I think that is unnecessary. Students should be expected to learn a SOUND for every letter but not to produce the name. That is a more efficient way to teach beginning reading. When kids see the word "hop" they need to be ale to say /h/ .../o/.../p/ (the sounds of the letters). Whether they know that the letter "h" is an /aitch/ is irrelevant. [/quote]

Disagree.  Name of the letter should come before the sound.  I would expect K kids to know the names of all the letters and some sounds--not vice versa.
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Well, you and a whole lot of people think we should teach letter names before letter sounds.

But the smart, most efficient way to teach kids to read is to introduce each letter by its most common sound.   That's the Montessori method BTW.

The reason this is more efficient is that SO MANY of the letter names in English do not bear a resemblance to the most common sound.

The letters b, d, j, k, p, t, v and z are pretty easy to move from letter name to sound.   "bee", "dee", "tee" etc -- once the child can segment sounds, they can segment the initial sound /t/ from the ending sound /ee/ and go from letter name tee to common sound /t/.

The letters f, l, m, n, s, and x are not too hard either but kids need to learn that you take the letter name "ef" and segment it to /e/ /f/ and it's the second phoneme not the first that is the most common sound.

The letters c and g are a bit more troublesome in that the first phoneme in their letter name IS a possible sound for that letter, but not the most common one.   So kids need to learn "c" represents the sound k or s etc.

The names for h, w and y are completely useless and trip kids up.   It helps you not at all to know that the letter 'h' is an "aitch" and the letter "w" is a "Doubleyou".   It would be much better to rename them "hay" and "wuh "!

Don't even get me started on the short vowels.

A MUCH more efficient way to teach letter sounds is to introduce them FIRST as their most common sounds.   After that, it is a simple matter to teach the correct letter names.   Much easier than the way we have traditionally done things.[/quote]

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