Letters: We all want kids to enjoy reading

Michael Rosen et al (Children must be free to read for pleasure, Letters, July 25) refused to recognize that while most children learn to read fluently by having a solid foundation in the principle alphabetical, also known as phonics, enjoy real books will increase. For 40 years, schools have been based on real books to teach children to read, but there was a race very regularly reluctant readers. Early exposure to simple stories, phonetically decodable ensure that most children are "reading" thing in Key Stage 1 and the freedom to read for pleasure since. We should not derail attempts by the government to integrate current and previous phonemes teaching in the early years. No child read for pleasure until they can read.

Margaret Ford

London

. Children who are able to generalize from the context, the method of "look and say" reading depends on the way to a good start with programs such as the Oxford Reading Tree. and find reading fun. Others find it difficult to generalize from the context: the words mean what they say -
and nothing else
. For them, phonetics is a great support in decoding the written word. Some children will be able to read that using phonics. This, of course, makes reading less "fun".

Christine Wood

Middleton Tyas , North Yorkshire

. The suggestion that the government's campaign to improve children's reading pleasure threat reading in primary schools is not supported by the evidence. Our policies are designed to ensure that children learn to read at the beginning of their school careers, so that they are able to develop a love of reading. Currently, 10 children leave primary school unable to read more than a child of seven years. International Studies rank England, 25 for reading - below the seventh nine years. Make sure that all children master the ability to decode words, pronounce new words is essential if we are to become confident readers. The check will phonetic ensure that no child slips through the net is still struggling with this basic skill.

course, children should learn in a rich linguistic environment, be read and offer the joys of books and literature. Develop a love of reading is a key objective of the proposed changes to primary school curricula. But if children are first taught the ability to translate a text into words the joy that comes from reading remain a closed world.
Nick Gibb MP

Schools Minister

• Our children begin formal education from five to seven years of European standard. Despite this advantage, 23% of 11-year-old can not reach their literacy goals. This figure is typical of the Anglo-Saxon world, so I can not be blamed entirely on teaching techniques. The acquisition of literacy in English can take up to three times more than our European competitors, hence the need for an early start. We have a cohort playback performance chronic low: one fifth of the population have a reading age of 13 or less - double that of Germany

A big culprit is our old and irregular writing that virtually guarantees the failure of literacy. Although this is the case, we will continue to search in vain and spend a fortune looking for ways elusive goals of mass literacy and children who read for pleasure.

Nigel Hilton

vice
English Spelling Society

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