New Insights Of About Letter Learning By Dougherty Stahl

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In this article called New Insights of about Letter Learning, written by Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl talking about the foundation of reading skills in Literacy today among children. The foundation of reading skill for children is an important thing for them at early age because it will help them being able to understand literacy. The alphabet is one way of knowledge that includes letters and sounds of letters. Besides the formation of the words and letter, there is letter orientation that is different in all different culture. The way letter sounds might be difficult for a child that is from England versus a child from America. Now there are programs for children to learn with letters. Those programs are to assist the children with learning their …show more content…

That technique is an easier way for the kids to be able to get a handle of how letters sound and how they look too. Another thing to help with lettering and sound relationships is a method called child characteristics. One characteristic is named own- name characteristic. It is when a child knows the sounds of letters that are in their name. If a child has a letter in their name than it will be easier for them to understand the sound of it. On the other hand, when a child does not have a letter in their name than they will not know the sound to it. The other one is phonological awareness, which means when a child knows a letter than they will be able to sieze the letter sounds from it. Besides the charateristics to help children to understand letter sounds and letters, there are other techniques to help them. One is to help teaching the letters in a cycle to finally understand or to improve on them. Lastly the children are learning how sound and letters are produced and ways to improve their phonological awareness. After children learning ways of understanding the letter sound relationships then they can use them in word

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