Teaching Reading In The 21st Century Is All About Computers Or Is It

The tried and tested systems for teaching reading are over 100 years old and are still popular and in use in the 21st century. Even though the computer and the internet are modern inventions not everybody is hooked up to the www. And living in front of a computer does not appeal to everybody so we sometimes have to resort to tried and trusted methods in use before the computer age.


There are a number of very good computer phonics programs available over the internet and I do recommend Click n’ Read Phonics as it has already proven itself. If you want to give your kids a head start into the 21st century you should do something your grandmother did. And that is read in bed. Your cant really do that with a computer.

When you start your children off on the road to reading they are too young to be on a computer. So you have to look at reading systems that are older that the 21st century.

I prefer phonics and of the phonics programs available I like the Montessori method with its sandpaper letters. Here you make up the word or phonic sound in sandpaper letters and let your child trace the sandpaper letter and say the word.

A very simple system but reading takes time so you have to keep at it. Also one of the joys of this system is it also teachers writing. When your child is tracing the letters she is preparing herself to start writing and you can’t do that on a computer.

By: Peter Legrove

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