This educator thinks rapid learning means we're skipping essential steps.
Let's educate her about what software makes possible!
Here's how we teach digraphs:
A digraph means two letters represent one sound. That means kids need to learn to process "sh" as a single unit, rather than splitting it into "s" and "h".
To make it easier for novice readers to parse words correctly,
@MentavaInc colorcodes digraphs to make them more obvious (see image).
As the student demonstrates increased mastery, the font hints gradually fade out to greyscale and then normal black.
This gradual process avoids the frustration that would be caused by sudden increases in difficulty, leading to more engaged and successful learners!
I’m still wondering about what happens when children get to digraphs and trigraphs later on and because they’ve rushed to GPCs they struggle. Skipping the essential pre requisite skills has consequences, I’ve seen it over the last 35 years. I keep asking, but