What are the main differences between the phonics, whole word and the whole language methods of teaching reading and how do these relate to Reading Master?
The phonics approach teaches children to break words down into their sound components. There are 44 different sounds that have been identified in English (Spalding and Spalding) that can be spelled 70 different ways. Reading Master demonstrates these 70 spellings of the 44 sounds or phonograms in English in its Sounds FlashBooks and uses them in color-coded high concentration in its Sounds Reader storybooks. The whole word approach teaches children to view whole words in their entirety almost as if they are pictures. Reading Master presents 100 key words to early reading in bold type at the beginning of its Sounds Reader books. The whole language approach teaches children to digest whole sentences at once by using different contextual clues in order to work out the full meaning of the sentences. There is no actual teaching of how to read (the connection of letters and sounds) before reading begins. Reading Master utilizes repetition of sounds in its Sounds Reader books and the pictures
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