Question:
What are some of the major differences between a skills approach to literacy
and a comprehensive or sociopsycholinguistic approach?
When looking at a skills approach to literacy and a comprehensive or sociopsycholinguistic
approach it is important to note their major differences. A skills approach to literacy groups reading
into separate components: phonemic awareness and phonics, word recognition, and
meaning. In the skills approach to literacy,
meaning just occurs. A comprehensive or sociopsycholinguistic
approach contends that all the components of reading are happening simultaneously. In the comprehensive or sociopsycholinguistic
approach, meaning occurs with consideration being given for the reader’s
schema.
I like how you included schema in the comprehensive approach. So much of chapter 2 focused on how important schema is to a reader. That being said, it would naturally fall under the comprehensive approach.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is so important for teachers to not get tied up in which approach is better than the other. All of the approaches, these two included, are aimed at making students more successful readers. If we can make our students successful readers, then we have done our job.
Mary, I agree - there is no "one size fits all" in education. One student may need the skill isolation while another needs the full immersion.
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