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Teaching Reading
Group 4:
IFTAHUR REZQI
ALVITA AKFARAHIN NINGRUM
DEVINA DAMURI
FATIMAH FIRDAUS
HIDAYATUL FADHILAH
LIZA PURNAMA SARI
Teaching reading
Approach It starts from word level, with children looking at single words on
cards to encourage rapid whole word recognition (Cameron, 2001, p.148). In the
Whole-word approach, the children learn words such as cat, dog, or ship as
whole, independent words. Other experts call this approach as sight word or
look-say method, which teaches children to recognize whole words or sentences
rather than individual sounds. Flash cards with individual words written on them
(which are often accompanied with related pictures) are used for this method.
The phonics approach is probably the best known and widely used method to teach
reading and writing in the English language. This approach generally emphasizes
teaching children to match individual letters of the alphabet with their specific
English pronunciations, with the idea that if children can “sound out” or decode new
words, they will be able to read independently. They then will be able to blend two
letters together to make simple words then three letters, then four and so forth.
Decoding is the process of identifying the written words using the alphabetic code to
determine pronunciation ad meaning (Riley, 1999, p.45).