Jeanne Chall’s Contribution to Reading and Teachers
There are many reasons that a child may struggle with reading, whether it be decoding, reading comprehension, fluency, or a combination of these. There are many reasons that a child might struggle with reading, and therefore a variety of techniques that may be suggested by theorists for teachers to help those students; among those theorists is a contemporary theorist, Jeanne Chall. As a contemporary theorist, Chall has contributed many theories and teaching techniques in reading which are used in the general education classroom on a regular basis. Some of the major ideas that Chall has contributed to the teaching world are the need for phonics in the early years of a child’s life, the …show more content…
The Stages of Reading Development are stages from the age of six months all the way to eighteen+ years old. These stages go from 0 – 5, creating a total of six stages, the first stage being Stage 0: Pre-reading, also known as “pseudo reading”. At this stage children are six months old to six years old, often the preschool years. In this stage, some things seen by the child are; pretends to read, retell stories from looking at pictures in a book that has previously been read to them, recognizing letters of the alphabet, and the ability to write their own name. The next stage is Stage 1: initial reading and decoding from ages 6-7, 1st grade up to the beginning of second grade. This is when a child begins to make connections between letters and their sounds as well with printed and spoken words, they can read simple texts and high frequency words with ease and are able to use skills to sound out new words they encounter. The following stage is Stage 2: Confirmation and fluency ages 7-8, from 2nd grade to 3rd grade. While in this stage the child can read simple stories still with increased fluency. This is obtained by the child being capable of decoding words and easily recognizing high frequency, in addition to the meaning of the words they are reading. The next stage is Stage 3: Reading for learning the new which has two phases, Phase A & …show more content…
If a child is lacking in a stage then that tells the teacher they need to take a step back for the student. “Stages are not rigidly tied to ages, and individuals are able to move back and forth between them, the order of their occurrence is fixed” (Chall, 1983). Loosely said, a student cannot obtain the skills of a precedent stage if they have not secured the needed skills in the preceding stage, but the student can go back and reinforce previously learned skills in an “old” reading development stage. As a child successfully progresses through these developmental stages, they can grow their decoding skills, reading comprehension, and fluency. Chall’s Stages of Reading Development contain both the phonics approach and whole language approach in a sequential order. A child at an early stage must learn phonics to be successful in their reading but can move in to a mixture of phonics and whole word instruction as they get older and move through the stages. There have been theorists who have disagreed with Chall but have not been able to disprove her stages of reading
There are many reasons that a child may struggle with reading, whether it be decoding, reading comprehension, fluency, or a combination of these. There are many reasons that a child might struggle with reading, and therefore a variety of techniques that may be suggested by theorists for teachers to help those students; among those theorists is a contemporary theorist, Jeanne Chall. As a contemporary theorist, Chall has contributed many theories and teaching techniques in reading which are used in the general education classroom on a regular basis. Some of the major ideas that Chall has contributed to the teaching world are the need for phonics in the early years of a child’s life, the …show more content…
The Stages of Reading Development are stages from the age of six months all the way to eighteen+ years old. These stages go from 0 – 5, creating a total of six stages, the first stage being Stage 0: Pre-reading, also known as “pseudo reading”. At this stage children are six months old to six years old, often the preschool years. In this stage, some things seen by the child are; pretends to read, retell stories from looking at pictures in a book that has previously been read to them, recognizing letters of the alphabet, and the ability to write their own name. The next stage is Stage 1: initial reading and decoding from ages 6-7, 1st grade up to the beginning of second grade. This is when a child begins to make connections between letters and their sounds as well with printed and spoken words, they can read simple texts and high frequency words with ease and are able to use skills to sound out new words they encounter. The following stage is Stage 2: Confirmation and fluency ages 7-8, from 2nd grade to 3rd grade. While in this stage the child can read simple stories still with increased fluency. This is obtained by the child being capable of decoding words and easily recognizing high frequency, in addition to the meaning of the words they are reading. The next stage is Stage 3: Reading for learning the new which has two phases, Phase A & …show more content…
If a child is lacking in a stage then that tells the teacher they need to take a step back for the student. “Stages are not rigidly tied to ages, and individuals are able to move back and forth between them, the order of their occurrence is fixed” (Chall, 1983). Loosely said, a student cannot obtain the skills of a precedent stage if they have not secured the needed skills in the preceding stage, but the student can go back and reinforce previously learned skills in an “old” reading development stage. As a child successfully progresses through these developmental stages, they can grow their decoding skills, reading comprehension, and fluency. Chall’s Stages of Reading Development contain both the phonics approach and whole language approach in a sequential order. A child at an early stage must learn phonics to be successful in their reading but can move in to a mixture of phonics and whole word instruction as they get older and move through the stages. There have been theorists who have disagreed with Chall but have not been able to disprove her stages of reading