Beginning reading strategies in children experiencing contrasting teaching methods |
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| Authors: | Paul Timothy Sowden Jim Stevenson |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, GU2 5XH Guildford, Surrey, UK;(2) Institute of Child Health, University of London, UK |
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| Abstract: | Two groups of 4.5–5.5 year old children in their first year at school were examined; one taught by a whole word teaching method and one taught by a mixed whole word and phonological teaching method. The children were given a test to investigate their reading of normal words. The results of this test were subjected to a detailed error analysis and the two groups were examined in order to see if there were differences in the reading strategies they used. No evidence was found counter to the assumption that reading begins with a logographic stage. However, it was found that teaching method was having a significant impact on the reading strategies which the children adopted. In addition it was found that a number of children from the whole school appeared to exhibit letter by letter reading. This suggests that letter by letter dyslexia might in part be an extreme form of a strategy used by normal readers. |
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| Keywords: | Early reading development Reading strategies Teaching method |
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