Teaching Reading in the 21st Century is All About Computers, Or is It?

The tried and tested systems for teachingcomputer.
reading are over 100 years old and are stillWhen you start your children off on the road to
popular and in use in the 21st century. Evenreading they are too young to be on a computer.
though the computer and the internet are modernSo you have to look at reading systems that are
inventions not everybody is hooked up to theolder that the 21st century. I prefer phonics and
www. And living in front of a computer does notof the phonics programs available I like the
appeal to everybody so we sometimes have toMontessori method with its sandpaper letters.
resort to tried and trusted methods in use beforeHere you make up the word or phonic sound in
the computer age.sandpaper letters and let your child trace the
There are a number of very good computersandpaper letter and say the word.
phonics programs available over the internet and IA very simple system but reading takes time so
do recommend Click n' Read Phonics as it hasyou have to keep at it. Also one of the joys of
already proven itself. If you want to give yourthis system is it also teachers writing. When your
kids a head start into the 21st century you shouldchild is tracing the letters she is preparing herself
do something your grandmother did. And that isto start writing and you can't do that on a
read in bed. Your cant really do that with acomputer.