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> If you don't assign sounds to words that you read, how would you speak them? If somebody asked you to repeat what you just read, what would you say? I didn't
by knolax 7y ago
> If you don't assign sounds to words that you read, how would you speak them? If somebody asked you to repeat what you just read, what would you say?
I didn't speak them. I didn't need to. If I actually needed to read it then obviously I would've given it a closer look and derive some sounds for it, but it wasn't necessary in order to internalize the word and use it when articulating my thoughts in my mind.
> That's what phonics is: you learn to sound out words you don't know letter by letter.
I'm talking about reading the letters out like an initialism, so assigning the sound "en-em-see-el-ai" to "nmcli". Even without any training in phonics the author must've at least known the names if the letters?
- pdonis 7y ago> I didn't speak them. I didn't need to. In other words, you weren't using those words to communicate anything to anyone else, just for your own internal thinking. Fair enough. > Even without any training in phonics the author must've at least known the names if the letters? A child might know the names of the letters but not know that sounding out words letter by letter is a good idea. The article discusses in some detail that apparently the strategy of sounding out unknown words letter by letter does not occur to children who aren't taught it; instead they use other much less effective strategies that do occur to them.
- knolax 7y ago> A child might know the names of the letters but not know that sounding out words letter by letter is a good idea. The article discusses in some detail that apparently the strategy of sounding out unknown words letter by letter does not occur to children who aren't taught it; instead they use other much less effective strategies that do occur to them. Oh ok I see. That makes sense.