The Primary English Encyclopedia: The Heart of the Curriculum, Third Edition
Multi-sensory approaches to reading use all the senses – touch, hearing, movement and sight – to help young children to recognise letters of the alphabet.
They can make the letter shapes in sand, feel textured letters or find the right letter in a bag of wooden or plastic letters. The feel of different kinds of cloth and paper can be exploited in the interactive alphabet books teachers and children make.
Hearing as well as seeing ‘onsets’ and ‘rimes’ reinforces the patterns and when it comes to writing, the actual handwriting movement can help children memorise spelling patterns.
This is the complete article, containing 99 words
(approx. 1 page at 300 words per page).
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