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Gentry's Blog on PsychologyToday.com
Dr. Gentry's blog on PsychologyToday.com will discuss issues relating to reading,spelling and writing. It will include information on how parents can prepare their children for the road to reading. It will discuss issues in the classroom to assist teachers and their students. It will discuss relevant, everyday issues that confront us all in our pursuit of a more literate world.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
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Do all children learn to read the same way?
Blog Notes and References
Raising Confident Readers, Gentry, pp 40.
A Century of Reading Experts Agree: Draw—Write—and Read!
Experts agree that drawing almost always opens the gate to early literacy. Documentation of the role of drawing for early reading goes back more than one hundred years. Maria Montessori, an Italian educator who lived from 1870 to1952 and founded the world renown Montessori schools recognized that writing precedes reading and advocated early drawing and use of early activity-based literacy tools such as sandpaper letters, alphabet blocks, and movable alphabet letters. She wrote, “Contrary to the usual accepted idea, writing precedes reading.”....
The classic study of how very young children learn to read by writing was published by Delores Durkin in 1966, Children Who Read Early. Virtually all of the 205 early readers that Durkin studied learned to print before they learned to read. She called them “pencil and paper kids” whose parents answered lots of questions about sounds and spelling during their “interest binges” in early writing...
Learn more in Raising Confident Readers.
Learn more about Maria Montessori at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Montessori
Learn more about Delores Durkin at http://www.cehs.usu.edu/ecc/images/pdf/presentations/doloresdurkin.pdf
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