Lately I've been reading selected articles from The New Education Reader: Leading Educators Speak Out. One of the articles pointed something out that is completely obvious that I have never thought of. Phonics is less likely to be effective for children who don't speak "properly" since they may not associate the "right" sound with letters.
This may explain why some kids have trouble learning to read. Especially kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. Also, this suggests that kids must be taught how to speak "properly" to teach phonics. I wonder if people are comfortable with this.
(You might argue that, more generally, teaching reading necessitates teaching how to speak properly but I don't think this is the case. Not in the sense that reading is word recognition anyways.)
This may explain why some kids have trouble learning to read. Especially kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. Also, this suggests that kids must be taught how to speak "properly" to teach phonics. I wonder if people are comfortable with this.
(You might argue that, more generally, teaching reading necessitates teaching how to speak properly but I don't think this is the case. Not in the sense that reading is word recognition anyways.)
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