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BY DAWN ELLEN BOYD
Doris Wilson believes every child should leave
elementary school with a solid knowlege of reading.
Rather than teaching her second graders at Union
Primary School by the old "look-say" or whole-word
method, where students learn to read individual words,
she teaches them phonics so they can say any word that
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Primary School, thinks children will be more effective
readers 11 they learn to sound out words phonetically.
She uses phonugram cards to help teach the class
specific sounds.
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can be sounded out. According to many experts, this
takes in almost 90% of all words in the English Language.
In the English language, there are 70 common
phonograms. Phonograms are combinations of one, two
or three letters which represent a single sound. Students
are taught the phonograms and learn to blend them
together to form words.
Wilson attended a Spalding phonics worksliop in Emporia,
Va., from Nov. 9-15. Workshop participants learned
both philosophy and teaching practices associated
with the method.
Wilson emphasized, "This method encourages a
child to think and be self-disciplined."
Good speech, writing, spelling and reading practices
are learned through the study of phonetics. "Even the
handwriting must be precise," said Wilson. "There's no
sloppy speech or careless reading either. It teaches
children to think. That's a big plus."
tacn cnua reads aloud every day, and frequent spelling
tests are administered.
Even before taking the workshop, Wilson believed in
the value of teaching phonics. "My class motto has been
'sound it out' as long as I've been teaching. If they sound
it out they've got the right foundation to move ahead in
reading."
Wilson's class wori'S nr. nhnnir-s iisinv the Srvnlrlinv
method for three hours each school day. The students are
learning phonograms while they wait for the arrival of
their Spalding-recommended reading books, which
feature children's literature such as "Bambi," "The
Story of Babar," and "The Emperor's New Clothes."
Unlike many methods for teaching reading,
Spaulding phonics doesn't require expensive Instructional
materials such as films and workbooks. Children
use pencils and paper and their reading books.
Wilson plans to meet with parents soon to explain the
method. "This is the reading method they use in New
Hampshire, the state that leads the nation in student
achievement," she said. It is also taught widely in
Arizona, California and New York.
Reading has always been a love of Wilson's. "1 Inherited
my love of reading from my father, a confirmed
bookworm, and from my mother, who crowned each day
with a story," she said.
Wilson believes reading deserves to be the first
priority of the educational system. "We can prevent Illiteracy
in the elementary grades, so there won't be
adults who can't read," she asserted.
"Research has shown us the best way to teach
children to read (the phonics method)," she said. "We
just need to do It."
Wilson laughed, "Barbara Tuchinan said 'Reading Is
the greatest gift with which man has endowed himself, by
whose means we may soar on unlimited voyages,' and 1
hope that no child in my charge will miss the boat!"
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