These first insights into language all come from sound – not sight. Listening to the speakers around them is essential for developing their ability to understand the language being spoken. Children are born with the ability to distinguish between fine variations of sound. Here are some insights, tips, and resources which will help. Many parents (and teachers) do not know how to teach a young child how to decode (read) and encode (write) the alphabet. Additionally, much of the difficulty comes from the ways reading, spelling, and writing are taught. This results in unusual and non-phonetic spellings. So the transliteration must use a combination of symbols created to represent English sounds to approximate the sounds of the other language. Other languages use sounds which do not occur in English. In the process of bringing in new words (called transliteration), the ‘rules of sound’ are applied. Part of the problem arises because English is a living language which adopts words from other languages. So why is English so difficult to spell? And why do people have difficulty reading and writing English? These ‘rules of sound’ make the task of learning how to decode the symbols into the language easier. Successful alphabets have a symbol which corresponds to a distinct sound. All languages have a much smaller set of sounds (called phonemes) than words. Interestingly, each time these systems reached around 2,000 word symbols the attempt was abandoned as too cumbersome. Over history many attempts have been made in various countries, at various times, to make symbols that represented whole words. Is your child struggling with spelling? Are there problems reading new words? Does writing seem to be next to impossible? Here’s how to break the code – literally.Īlphabets are symbolic representations of the sounds in a language. Breaking the Alphabet Code - The Key to Reading, Spelling, and Writing
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