Even though this video has strong religious overtones, (please let me know if it offends you, and I will provide an alternate assignment), it is useful for determining strategies that beginning readers use when becoming literate, even at age 50. Watch the video and reflect on what strategy or strategies Robin used most to help him learn to read.
As I watched this powerful video I was amazed at how determined Robin was to learn to read. Robin used various strategies in order to learn to read and as the video shows he used some phonics, but did not focus on phonics as the primary source for his learning. He would chunk some sounds within words to get the sound parts but did not recite individual letter sounds in order to figure out the word.
He also read children's books, but as he read and miscued, he would ask if what he said made sense and would go back and re read. He was using the context of the sentence and his schema in order to determine the correct words in the sentence and the meaning of the words.
He read ads in the paper, and read signs he saw, and articles in the newspaper. The most significant strategy that I noticed was that he used his schema and the context to determine if what he was reading was making sense. He was reading for meaning by the end of the video.
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