![]() Your child learns to read the words in the lesson, but although he’s still learning to spell the words, you decide to allow him to move on to the next lesson. Without knowing it, you have chosen to focus on spelling at the expense of reading. Your child learns to read the words in the lesson, but he can’t move on to the next lesson because he’s still learning to spell those words. That’s because there are two possible scenarios with programs that combine reading and spelling: When you try to teach your child to read and spell the same words at the same time, you guarantee only one thing: one of these critically important subjects will fall by the wayside. Reason #2: All-In-One Programs Force You to Choose between Two Scenarios See what I mean? Is it any wonder that so many children struggle with spelling? And that leads to the second reason we teach reading and spelling separately. Or should it be spelled spesial with the same word ending as controversial?.Is it spelled speshul, just like it sounds?.But spelling the word special is a greater challenge because of that tricky /sh/ sound in the middle of the word. With a basic understanding of phonics, a child should be able to read the word special without much trouble. Though most adults can easily read these words, many would misspell them. If you think you would have spelled all these words correctly, congratulations! You’re probably a better speller than most adults. You didn’t have any trouble reading them, did you?īut what if I asked you to spell them? (Without looking first, of course!) How would you do? So even though reading and spelling are flip sides of the same coin, reading is easier. There are some generalizations that can help narrow down the options, but the fact is that there are approximately 250 ways to spell the 45 speech sounds of the English language. Choices include A, AI, A-consonant-E, EIGH, EI, EY, or AY. If a child wants to write the word great or neighbor, for example, he has to decide how the sound of long A should be written. Ideally, there would be just one way to write each sound, but the reality is that there are many ways to write each sound. ![]() In a word like thread, the student who tries out the first, most common sound of EA quickly realizes that /thrēd/ isn’t a real word, so she tries the second sound of EA, resulting in the real word /thrĕd/.īut in spelling, a child encodes the word. And the fact that students learn to recite the phonogram sounds in order of frequency is also helpful. Phonogram AY always says long A, so once a child learns that, reading words like stay and display is a straightforward task.Įven with a more complex phonogram-such as phonogram EA, which can say three sounds (/ē/, /ĕ/, or /ā/)-students can try out each of the three sounds to see which forms a real word. In reading, a child decodes the written word. Simply put, reading is easier than spelling. Reason #1: Most Children Learn to Read More Quickly than They Learn to Spell That’s a great question! Read on to discover the two main reasons we teach these subjects separately. After all, wouldn’t it be more efficient to teach multiple subjects in the same program? You may be wondering why we don’t combine our programs into a single All About® program. All About Reading and All About Spelling fall into this category. ![]()
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