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My 8 y.o, daughter said something very interesting yesterday and I want to share it here and see if anyone has heard something similar.

She asked me 'how do you spell the word water?', so I told her the letters.  I could tell she was really thinking about the letters I had just said. 
She then says to me  "see, that doesn't make any sense to me...why does wuh,,,.water  start with duh...double-u.    'wuh' doesn't sound like 'duh'.  
I said 'you are right- I have never thought about letters this way before'. 
 She is spelling letters out. She says ' like the letter h-it starts with the a sound. Then she sounds that out....'aytch'.   I am amazed at how independent and matter-of-factly that she is thinking about and expressing this:)  And it gives me more insight into why she isn't interested in reading yet...it doesn't make sense to her, yet.

Has anyone else heard of this explanation of words/letters/sounds? 

Kristen


Sandra Dodd

-=-She then says to me "see, that doesn't make any sense to me...why does wuh,,,.water start with duh...double-u. 'wuh' doesn't sound like 'duh’. -=-

It’s a name for a symbol.
Double u (or double v, in some language) is old, and is about what it looks like (two of another letter stuck together).

Some people don’t teach “the alphabet” by names, but by sounds. That’s not a perfect way either, as letters have more than one sound.

If someone tried to teach a child to sound out, that can cause more confusion than help. It’s good to let kids figure it out in their own ways, answering their questions along the way.

-=-And it gives me more insight into why she isn't interested in reading yet...it doesn't make sense to her, yet.-=-

When it makes sense to her, she won’t be “interested in reading”; she will BE reading, when it makes sense to her.

It’s not interest or desire that cause reading to kick in. It’s many small maturities and clues that can only be gathered and accomplished within that individual. Outside pressure can keep it from happening, but it cannot cause reading to happen.

Sandra

Alex & Brian Polikowsky

It does sound lie the alphabet was presented to her as letters corresponding a sound.

If I had done that to my kids  they would have been very very confused.

Some children don't get phonics until they are reading fluently.

When my son was reading fluently that is when he started asking things like : why does this letter sound like  this in the world and like that in that word?

He had fun with all the different sound a letter or syllable had in different words!

Probably why many kids in school get confused and think learning to read is so darn hard.

Alex

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On Mar 11, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Sandra Dodd Sandra@... [AlwaysLearning] <[email protected]> wrote:

 

-=-She then says to me "see, that doesn't make any sense to me...why does wuh,,,.water start with duh...double-u. 'wuh' doesn't sound like 'duh’. -=-

It’s a name for a symbol.
Double u (or double v, in some language) is old, and is about what it looks like (two of another letter stuck together).

Some people don’t teach “the alphabet” by names, but by sounds. That’s not a perfect way either, as letters have more than one sound.

If someone tried to teach a child to sound out, that can cause more confusion than help. It’s good to let kids figure it out in their own ways, answering their questions along the way.

-=-And it gives me more insight into why she isn't interested in reading yet...it doesn't make sense to her, yet.-=-

When it makes sense to her, she won’t be “interested in reading”; she will BE reading, when it makes sense to her.

It’s not interest or desire that cause reading to kick in. It’s many small maturities and clues that can only be gathered and accomplished within that individual. Outside pressure can keep it from happening, but it cannot cause reading to happen.

Sandra