Today, 29.7.23, again there were a few tweets debating whether to teach letter names or not.
WARNING: These are debates by adults, just in case you think they are by kids.
EBLI tweeted followed by the tweets below which are self explanatory.
High Five Literacy@FaithBorkowsky
This is why delaying letter names makes sense.
Heidi Jane @DroppinKnwldge
Actually research shows letter names are important and can actually facilitate letter sound learning. Many letters like the one shown, have the sound in the letter name.
High Five Literacy @FaithBorkowsky
And many don’t. From my experience, having worked with hundreds of kids over the last 37 yrs, struggling readers mix up letter names and sounds and continue to do so for a while. For typical readers, it doesn’t matter.
From the above tweet it is obvious that Faith is arguing for argument sake. This is the problem with educators on Twitter. They will never back away and admit that they had not seen it from the other party’s viewpoint. The tweets continue:
