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Students circulate among many teachers, focusing on different skills as they learn to read. In a recent lesson, Max Thomas worked with first-graders who read aloud from a storybook.
MV Elementary adopts phonics-based method to teach kids reading
Most of us probably don't remember much about how we learned to read - mastering the association of shapes with sounds and ultimately linking them into words and sentences that unlocked compelling stories and ideas.
Learning to read and write English - which is replete with exceptions and doesn't follow straightforward patterns - can be especially challenging. "There are 26 letters, but 44 different sounds," Methow Valley Elementary School (MVES) Literacy Support Specialist Cara Christensen said.
To read more from this article, visit: https://methowvalleynews.com/2023/05/25/introducing-children-to-the-world-of-words/
