When I was a child, my parents would make it a point to read to me everyday. They used the method of teaching me how to read by reading me the same books over and over again; then I would be able to recite the book from memory but I also followed the words. After a while of doing this, I could look at words I saw and if I knew it from one of my books then I would recognize it and be able to read it. Looking back on literacy from that stand point, I can see how learning to read in this manner has rubbed off on learning other subjects as well.
TE301 was surprisingly a very challenging class for me because it broke literacy down into its simplest sectors and I had never learned literacy in this way before. The class made me relearn what it takes to truly be fluent in reading and building one's vocabulary. I would have never known that words are broken up so little into their letter sounds; I made associations and connections with facts I already knew about learning how to read and assimilated the pieces I did not get when I was a child.
I feel much more comfortable teaching literacy to children because I now know several different styles of learning how read and that every child does learn differently. I also know now that I did not learn to read in the best way. Even though children can memorize words, it is important that their understanding of literacy goes deeper than the face value of the word.
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