Tuesday, May 15, 2012
This week
Hannah has been reading and writing every day this week. She is much more confident, but she has trouble pronouncing words in which there does not seem to be a clear pattern, from her perspective though what has been working is using reading strategies. For example, she had difficulty reading The and all words starting with the, like them, there then so I taught her how to read the and then add the other syllables. The other strategy is pronouncing /u/ when there are two o's in a word, like room, pool, root, moon, etc. these two strategies are working but I have to build on them....
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Since Hannah is still so little, I wonder if not teaching her any of that would be the right thing to do. What I mean is what if you went with the Natural Approach and just let her acquire the language naturally. Would that work? Would she eventually start producing the U sound on her own or does she have to be taught that sound? I guess as a parent you are not willing to take the chance of letting her acquire it naturally, but you would rather teach her. I would do the same!
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