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About the Manual
This manual provides the teacher, tutor or parent a technique to teach the child how to read,--the easy way. It is also ideal for strengthening the beginner's reading skills for young and old alike.
Reading is nothing more than making sense of the mixture and arrangement of 26 letters of the alphabet. Experience shows that the "problem" here is that all the letters of the alphabet are incorporated (haphazardly?) in the initial lessons. This, sort of, confuses the beginning reader.
The idea in this manual is to introduce letters in a gradual and systematic manner. Simple words are repeated in the early lessons. This is to develop the concept that letters when joined in words become alive with meanings of their own.
Aside from the staggered introduction of letters and words, this manual incorporates the basic sight reading words in the text. This will make the unlocking of new words easier. Mastery of these basic sight words is enforced in day to day classroom activities, not necessarily only in the reading class, but in other subject areas as well.
How to use the Manual.
Ideally, each page can constitute as a lesson for the day. The words in bold or darker types are new words for the particular lesson. These must be properly introduced or unlocked before the actual reading of the lesson for the day.
As much as possible, illustrations are provided to make the text understandable. The reader can draw meanings from the context of the text or illustrations provided. Line drawings are initially used, because in the case of a child, copying the drawing will make for entertainment in the classroom and induce an aura of "success" in the reader.
The bold letter at the bottom of the page indicates the particular letter to be reinforced in the lessons. The other letters are the ones in current use from page 1 of the manual.
Repetition of already-learned words in succeeding lessons along with new words will enable the beginning reader to read on, on his own, with a little coaching on how to read the new words.
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