Reading and writing
I know little about teaching and learning how to read and write. I think about the process as sort of a holistic mash of finding meaning in (apparent) squiggles, learning rules, using memory, exploration and fine motor skills.
A couple of Isabelle's emails got me thinking as to how she views the process.
Isabelle loves to write emails to various people. Here's what she wrote to Brendon one day. There are two separate emails. I wasn't present for the writing of either (I was buzzing around the lounge and kitchen, doing various house chores), but I saw what she had written when it was time to send them. I typed "To Daddy from Isabelle"in the subject line before she started. I've deleted some of the blank lines between her sentences to save space.
Email 1 (first half only):
Email 2:
Isabelle seems to have copied part of my subject line into her first lines of text. Is she consciously typing "To Daddy from Isabelle"? Or is she just copying letters? She probably has some kind of recognition of the letters - especially given that all of the letters on a keyboard are upper case, whereas my model line has upper and lower case letters. And she definitely recognises her name when it is written.
The rest of the text doesn't appear to show us much (except, perhaps, slightly more letters from the left hand side of the keyboard - not surprising as she is left handed). I wonder about the commas between the words to, Dad and Isabelle. Perhaps she hasn't discovered the space bar yet, but wants to separate out the words. In the fourth line of her first email, the word "dad" appears. Accidental? Maybe, but there's a comma before it - could this indicate that there is some intent to write "Dad(dy)"?
Hmmmmm.....
A couple of Isabelle's emails got me thinking as to how she views the process.
Isabelle loves to write emails to various people. Here's what she wrote to Brendon one day. There are two separate emails. I wasn't present for the writing of either (I was buzzing around the lounge and kitchen, doing various house chores), but I saw what she had written when it was time to send them. I typed "To Daddy from Isabelle"in the subject line before she started. I've deleted some of the blank lines between her sentences to save space.
Email 1 (first half only):
to,dad,isabelle,uriurbgfgufgcdsjdfjddetrrrtbfgg
B,mcvvfmghbnfnftrrsncfcdsmcbbnmbnddjxcjxxxddkbvkgcfffmas,sw,f,df,bfmfmvmd,v,,f
jfdkjkgtrj
Email 2:
To,dad,isabelle,troiriitbbcdjsjfdkckfvb
The rest of the text doesn't appear to show us much (except, perhaps, slightly more letters from the left hand side of the keyboard - not surprising as she is left handed). I wonder about the commas between the words to, Dad and Isabelle. Perhaps she hasn't discovered the space bar yet, but wants to separate out the words. In the fourth line of her first email, the word "dad" appears. Accidental? Maybe, but there's a comma before it - could this indicate that there is some intent to write "Dad(dy)"?
Hmmmmm.....
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