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A method of reading a manual and particularly intended to be broadcast in as many schools as possible should not the very first pages provide full texts. This entry in the reading should be prohibited. Indeed, the approach in the classroom is different from home. Students are there to gain easy reading. They must have this bag for life. One must consider all students or more advanced, or the least developed and ensure that this acquisition is possible for all in the best possible conditions.

From there, members of the working group were unanimous: do not make a text view in the classroom to children when they can not decipher all the letters that appear in the text. This obviously means that initially the learning to be structured to provide text only once a sufficient number of letters was seen by the child the first texts necessarily seen and read in class by students not will be no great interest.

Yes! but, The most important work on these simple texts which all letters have already been covered in class is that the child can read a text alone. Even if this text is a new word, as he knows all the letters, he can decipher and articulate properly. The first texts that were read to our students are not interesting, but it does not matter, at least they are proud, they can read “Reflected a teacher’s working group SOS Education” and after, orally, they embroider it, they tell a true story developed and imagination works. Then when they are sufficiently advanced, I suggested on Friday afternoon a “reading gift.” They bring with them a book they like and I read them all in class. They listen.

Now offering children to read directly from the text, with words that have letters that they have never seen before, it’s as if the children were asked to run without ever having learned to walk » evidenced by a speech therapist working group. A number of new textbooks which have been placed on the market do not comply with the principle of progression that aims to structure learning slowly without burning steps.

However, it is said often enough: combine learning the code and a direct approach and the text is so brutal destroyer. This is typical of mixed methods approaches: syllabic and comprehensive. They are found under the name of mixed methods, or no name at all. But beware, if you ask a child to follow or to read a text while he has not seen all the letters that appear in this text, it is a catastrophic approach. That is to plunge into a bath of words. The child has not yet enough markers to cope alone, to be autonomous. This is why we continue to have 40% of children leaving primary school unable to read, write and count properly. From their studies, they will be trained to guess and not to go through a thorough training course, difficult at first but after which they can decode any word and read it correctly even if they have never seen before. They also will be able to read the definition of the word in the dictionary. That’s autonomy and that is where we should strive, but this is not the case.

If you want to be the best in learning foreign languages. I will say traveling is the best way to learn it quickly. I’ll start with English, I want to give you 10 sentences that is common in daily communication. this is very important if you don’t know English & arrive in an English speaking country.

1. Could you tell me Where are the restrooms (Washrooms, toilets) please? Can you tell me where are the toilets?
2. Where Could I find a post office? Where can I find a job?
3. Can you help me? Thanks a lot for your help!
4. I’m French and I do not understand English very well, can you repeat that slowly?
5. A ticket for London (Edinburgh, New York ,…), please. At What Is The Next Bus? Where Can I Buy the tickets?
6. A table for Two persons, please. I would like a glass of tap water, a beer …A table for two, please. I’d like a glass of water (tap, if you Greenhouse bottled water fee), a beer ….
7. A Big Mac menu With Coca-Cola and French fries, to take away please. A Big Mac menu with Coke and fries, please take out.
8. I do not need a bag thanks to i would like a receipt please. I do not need a bag but I want to thank you a receipt please.
9. Sorry I am lost, do you know Where is the next subway? I’m lost, do you know where is the nearest metro station?
10. Nice to meet you, can you let me your email address or your phone number?