{"id":1251,"date":"2015-01-21T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2015-01-24T04:15:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T12:15:51","slug":"make-learning-to-read-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/?p=1251","title":{"rendered":"Make &#8220;learning to read&#8221; better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recognize the importance of providing focus and context with\u00a0<strong>object-naming<\/strong>. \u00a0From the earliest months, name relevant tangibles objects like &#8220;thumb,&#8221; &#8220;mom&#8221; and &#8220;book&#8221; \u2013 and \u2013 actions like &#8220;eat,&#8221; &#8220;go&#8221; and &#8220;play.&#8221; \u00a0Intangibles like &#8220;thoughts,&#8221; &#8220;choices&#8221; and &#8220;loving relationships&#8221; can also be named; we will learn whatever we&#8217;re taught.<\/p>\n<p>Know precise components of spoken and written language so that, when the time is right, proper instruction can be directly and correctly provided.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>*New* names V01-C39 for English speech sound-units<\/li>\n<li>Conventional names &#8220;ayeee,&#8221; &#8220;beee,&#8221; &#8220;seee,&#8221; etc. for Letters \/Aa\/ through \/Zz\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Never allow commingling between sound-units and letters when you talk about them. \u00a0Letters never make sounds; letters always represent sounds. \u00a0Logically, there never was an &#8220;A-Sound&#8221; or &#8220;Long-A&#8221; or &#8220;Short-A&#8221; as common phonics jargon would have it.<\/p>\n<p>Learn to say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[C39] is spelled Letter \/y\/<\/li>\n<li>[V05] is spelled Letter \/e\/<\/li>\n<li>[C28] is spelled Letter \/s\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pronounce and spell-out C39\/y\/ V05\/e\/ C28\/s\/ = YES<\/p>\n<p>Always use relevant vocabulary!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognize the importance of providing focus and context with\u00a0object-naming. \u00a0From the earliest months, name relevant tangibles objects like &#8220;thumb,&#8221; &#8220;mom&#8221; and &#8220;book&#8221; \u2013 and \u2013 actions like &#8220;eat,&#8221; &#8220;go&#8221; and &#8220;play.&#8221; \u00a0Intangibles like &#8220;thoughts,&#8221; &#8220;choices&#8221; and &#8220;loving relationships&#8221; can also be named; we will learn whatever we&#8217;re taught. Know precise components of spoken and written language so that, when the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pedagogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}