Children Learning To Read

Research shows that there are not any benefits to children learning to read early. Many people believe that the quicker a child learns to read, the more advanced they will be academically, but this is not the case. Society has begun focusing on how quickly children learn to read and they are not spending enough time on the process of learning to read. Learning to read should take time and patience. Lindsay Waters brings this to our attention by stating in his article, “Unless ones can digest the letters on the page fast enough, one cannot comprehend what one is reading.” If we do not take the time to teach our children the process of reading, children will never fully understand the importance of words. Learning to read is more than learning how to sound out words on a page, learning to read is about understanding words and concepts conveyed in

The school gives children ten words a week to learn, once children learn their ten words, they give them ten more words until they have learned all the basic words. With this method there is no break down or time for understanding the words they just memorized. I feel as if children need to be read full sentences, and then the full sentences need to be broken down to resolve any misunderstanding. By teaching words on a set schedule, does not allow children to learn at their own pace, and reading is a long drawn out process.

With everything in the world speeding up, reading is something that shouldn’t be altered. If we spend time while children are young, and give them a strong foundation for reading, children will struggle as much when they are older. Reading is a fundamental to life that should not be sped up. As Lindsay Waters says, “Speed reading forces you to ignore all but one dimension of a literacy work, the simplest information here we loose the enjoyment that made people turn to literature in the first