What is a global approach to reading?

A global reading approach assumes that a person learns to read best when reading begins with natural and meaningful text.

A global approach to reading is an approach that begins by giving learners natural, meaningful text to listen to, look at, and memorize by sight.

Advocates of a global approach do not all agree on how to begin the task of teaching someone to read.

Over the years advocates have identified their approach by their own label. Here are some of them:

• Assisted reading
• Holistic reading
• Language experience approach
• Learning-to-read-by-reading
• Natural reading approach
• Neurological impress method
• Shared reading

Here are some examples of global reading approaches:

• Language experience approach activities
• Neurological impress activities
• Shared reading

• Approaches to reading

• Aukerman 1984

• Concept module: global approach to reading
• In overview module: Glossary (Literacy): G
• In modular book: Glossary of literacy terms
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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