Child develops vocabulary and comprehension of new words. Child writes stories and poems. Child is read to by teacher who uses a large book on an easel so that the children can learn the words by their configurations and contextual relationships. Child is taught to memorize sight words. Child is expected to write before being able to read.
Child is taught some letter sounds as one of the strategies to be used in figuring out a word.
Child is taught to use picture clues, context clues, syntactic clues, and phonetic clues in trying to figure out what the words say. No stress on proper pronunciation. No stress on accuracy. Cooperative learning is stressed over individualism. Home Life Inc. Originally published in Practical Homeschooling No. 3.