There has been a heated Twitter discussion on when to teach letter names.
When the British came to Malaya they taught our teachers to teach us letter names first and then teach us letter sounds. This is what I practice in teaching my dyslexic students.
They taught us only one of the sounds of letters. They taught us A for apple; b for ball; C for cat and so on.
Do we have to teach the vowel blend ai to read the word rain? I believe it is not necessary. Here are a few Tweets and my response.
Jeffrey Bowers @jeffrey_bowers Mar 15 Replying to @mazst @Spell2Read, @ManYanaEd, @jeffrey_bowers, @ReadingShanahan, and a few others.
Most of the kids in that video could not. A few kids could. But the lesson is useful for all. How does a child get to the point of recognising "rain" in an analytic phonics context? The child knows rain before lesson, and learns its spelling, GPCs, and related words in lesson
Londonjohn @londonjohn9
But have these pupils reached the extended code of /ai/? If they haven't, they'll dissolve when they meet rain.
