Module 3: Activity 2

What do you think of this? What do such activities and cracking the code contribute to proficient reading? What else might a reader need to become proficient?

I think that reading is a combination of things. I believe that students need to start off with the basics at first and then as they become more confident they are able to make sense of the words and what they have read more easily because they have the foundation for reading. In the video, it discusses how they use a systematic and direct approach. The students’ start of listening for individual sounds, then they move to segments of sounds and blending, and then they read the whole word. For this process they use both real and nonsense words. I think the use of nonsense words is a way to show that the student is beginning to become a proficient reader because they are using the cues they have learned to read words they are unfamiliar with. This is a beneficial way of teaching in the beginning, but as students grow older they need to learn to read efficiently and effectively by reading to construct meaning and understanding. Not identifying each individual sound or word. With this approach to reading I do believe that efficient and effective reading will be the final outcome because students will be learning to set the foundation for reading so when they become proficient readers they will be able to unconsciously use these “rules” to read and understand.