How do traditional and holistic approaches to teaching beginning reading differ?
What will be an ideal response?
In a traditional approach, word attack and comprehension are taught in isolation. The skills may or may not be practiced in a real text. Children are expected to put the isolated skills together in order to read.
A holistic approach assumes that children are developing literacy since the moment of birth, no single approach to literacy is the “right” one, caregivers and parents are important participants in children’s literacy development, and reading is a tool for making sense of the world. A holistic approach is characterized as one which uses whole texts, includes ample examples of good literature, is child-centered, and sees parent and caregiver involvement as very important. In a holistic approach, skills and strategies are taught in real pieces of text, usually children’s literature. Children learn the skills in combination and in texts in which they are to be applied.
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