Children Taught To Read by the Internet
by David Morgan
Parents and teachers are now turning to the power of the Internet to deliver literacy coaching to their children.
The great results that have been seen confound the doubters. Here is why the Internet is proving such a good coach:
1 Children love doing things on the computer.
2 You can deliver immense technical expertise to coaching individual children. The truth is that teaching literacy well is a technical activity that takes a lot of training. And yet children need daily coaching. The Internet is an extremely practical way to do that.
3 The child is just working one-on-one with the computer. This makes it a more private and less stressful experience than working with an adult, when reading is a struggle.
4 The Internet can subtly adjust for each child, keeping their interest and engagement, without overfacing them.
5 Delivery can be controlled. We have found that a child will learn faster by being given less to learn each day. That may sound strange, but six new things learnt thoroughly are worth far more than a dozen new things half-learnt.
Whatever people believe, the truth lies in the results. We have seen children crack reading in just days and weeks, having struggled for years with conventional teaching approaches.
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