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Opinion: In my view - Many routes to reading
By Henrietta Dombey, Emeritus Professor of Literacy in Primary
Education, University of Brighton,
Nursery World,
29 May 2008
Textbook writers and the Government are keen on synthetic phonics, expecting children to build up all unknown words from their sound/letter connections.
But is it really the best route into reading for very young children? Anyone who has ever tried to play 'I Spy' with a four-year-old knows children find it hard to think of the language they hear as a sequence of sounds. Mapping those sounds on to the spelling patterns of English is harder still. Synthetic phonics is no magic bullet. It needs phonically regular texts, so words like 'one' and 'two', 'was' and 'love' are frowned on, severely limiting what authors can say....
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