#compton-lilly

[glseducation]

Dichotomies are established and explored between games and traditional texts. The relationships between games and traditional texts can be explored in a number of different ways... but does is matter that these dichotomies exist at all?

Catherine Compton-Lilly (GLS 9.0)

[katieverbitsky]

Sounding Out

"The cultural model of sounding out privileges phonetic decoding over other decoding strategies, particularly those that involve the meanings of texts and the structures of language. Sounding out draws our attention to reading accuracy through a reliance on letter-sound associations." 

When asked students and parents all said that good readers are those that can sound out words. But, most students used a range of different strategies while reading. 

Strategies to use:

Use the first letter

Does your atempt look like the word 

"I find out when beginning readers attempt to sound out words they often produce each sound in isolation rather than blending the sounds together." 

To children sounding out a word can mean saying words letter by letter or finding smaller words/chunks in the whole word. 

"Sounding out is a cultural model for reading that is repeatedly voiced by students and their parents...it may capture an image of reading, but it does not describe what students actually do when reading." 

[audreymontemayor-blog]

Gee explains that cultural models, because they involve simplifications of complex phenomena, can be misleading.... The cultural model of 'sounding out' privileges phonetic decoding over other decoding strategies, particularly those that involve the meanings of texts and the structures of language. 'Sounding out' draws our attention to reading accuracy through a reliance on letter-sound associations. (Compton-Lilly, Page 2)

I think that this is an interesting point made in this article. Sounding out is such a pervasive technique, probably seen in every classroom in the country but just because it it what has been used does not mean that it is the best way to learn. Our teaching and learning techniques need to be constantly critiqued and revised in order to remain the best method.

[jsouthmayd-blog]

"Sounding Out"

"Sounding out draws our attention to reading accuracy through a reliance on letter-sound associations" (442)

"I find that when beginning readers attempt to "Sound out words" they often produce each sound in isolation rather than blending the sounds together" (444) 

Sounding out: 

sounding out words sequentially letter-by-letter

finding two or more chunks within the word that they recognize and putting these chunks together. 

Re: Pronouncing words--"As Michael Stubbs reminds us, 'We hear language through a powerful filter of social values and stereotypes" (449). 

"We must help parents to understand the limitations of "sounding out words" without degrading their genuine efforts to help their children; and we must help them to develop additional strategies for supporting their children with reading" (450). 

Years from now, if we are successful, our former students will become parents who help their children to develop flexible and efficient word-solving strategies, and when they or their children enter undergraduate and graduate programs, they will bring expanded notions of word solving." (451).