Importance Of Reading Comprehension

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Significant studies have been instrumented to delve in mental development correlated in reading skills that construct children’s early reading achievement. These researches present plausible data of an important aspect of letter sound and phonological awareness. Whilst, the findings appears to point that synthetic phonics teach students better in word reading, spelling, and reading comprehension. In the case of synthetic phonics approach revealed a child develops the knowledge how to pronounce unknown printed words by sounding them out and blending the letters. Thus, a systematic approach is essential to beginner readers. While education experts formed viewpoint that analytic phonics method to teach children better at fluency in share rimes …show more content…

Meanwhile, in a preschool environment, the emergent literacy approach is play-based learning focusing children’s interests, such as, singing, dramatic play and shared reading. According to Hill (2006, p. 73) shared reading is an experience which a big or small book is read out to the class where children are encouraged to participate in various ways such as choral reading. Above all these, in a junior primary teaching of reading instruction is to develop skills in recognizing letter sound to word, and reading fluency in a competent manner. Most educators consider the importance of phonics approach, however, as Fisher (2008, p. 8) points out that there are various phonics approaches and all focus on teaching the correlations between phonemes – sound of language, and graphemes - letters. The synthetic phonics, also referred to as explicit phonics, involves learning letter to sound relationships and then the sounds are blended to stress into words. According to Johnston, McGeown, and Watson (2011, p. 1365) that overall, students had better word reading, spelling, and reading comprehension when taught by synthetic phonics. In particular, the boys tend to well in phonological approach to reading than the girls. For this reason, Johnston et al. (2011, p. 1366) suggest a phonic approach would be an advantage to the boys. Similarly, the synthetic phonics method was better for children was supported by the United States of America (US) National Reading Panel (NRP) in the Report and Recommendations for National Inquiry into the teaching of literacy (Australian Government. Department of Education, Science and Training, 2005, p. 32) that children learn to read far better than all other instructions and that inclusive of whole language approach. As an illustration, in Fisher (2008, p. 9) children first learn the sounds for p, a, and t

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