CUÁNDO ENSEÑAR A LEER A LOS NIÑOS
Dr. José Manuel Bautista Vallejo, EU PhD
Dr. Europeo en Psicopedagogía
Profesor Titular de la Universidad de Huelva (España)
De una parte, se oye decir de los maestros en estos días, aunque no es una cosa nueva del todo, que no es conveniente enseñar a leer a los niños, realmente, hasta los cinco o seis años. La otra parte mantiene la tesis contraria, a saber, que los niños pueden, y deben, que es aún más importante, empezar con la lectura y con la escritura antes de los tres años. ¿Y ustedes qué piensan?
Ocurre que este debate, que está más o menos extendido, reposa siempre en bases y opiniones que cada uno entiende como bien fundadas. Yo, lógicamente, voy a expresar las mías. Ocurre también que este debate no solamente tiene lugar en el terreno del magisterio, con sus tentáculos informativos sobre las familias, a las que se trata de convencer para una u otra causa, a quienes se pide de alguna forma apoyos para no aparecer argumentos no solventes.
Pero es que el tema obliga cuando de opiniones de aula, o de teorías de escuela, se pasa a texto convertido en Ley o palabra decretada desde un Parlamento. Esta es la prueba más certera que tenemos, pues no cabe duda de que ya no son opiniones, estamos delante de verdaderos imperativos que hay que cumplir.
Como hablé de mi opinión lo haré de inmediato para no ser tachado de hombre de rodeos. El estudio, la formación, la experiencia, me han llevado a grabar con oro en mi ideario aquello de: el saber no ocupa lugar. Ocurre aquí igual, pues todo aquello que pueda ser aprendido por niños y niñas desde edad temprana quedará como valor fundante para el futuro. Es más, el futuro se cimenta con estos momentos en donde una siembra inteligente permite la mejor cosecha personal y comunitaria posterior.
Estimo que las palabras de Glenn Doman son muy certeras: un niño puede leer palabras con un año, frases pequeñas con dos, libros adaptados a su edad con tres. De verdad, no le falta razón. Es curioso, además, anotar cómo cada diez, quince o veinte años esta conquista del pensamiento aparece unas veces aceptada, otras discutida: hoy parece haber un renovado intento por volver a enseñar desde temprano, cuando hasta ahora se constataba una imposición de las tendencias que abogaban por una lecto-escritura tardía.
Aquellos que hasta ahora, apoyados por determinadas tradiciones pedagógicas que abogaban por una educación preescolar como espacio y tiempo imbuido en lo lúdico, apoyados también en reformas que entendían que esto era lo más conveniente para los niños y niñas por debajo de los seis años, aducían que si los niños aprendían a leer pronto se aburrirían en clase. Craso error, porque ¿qué clase de profesores tienen estos niños que permiten que sus alumnos se aburran?
Hoy, enseñar a leer y a escribir pronto, visto incluso como un juego didáctico, es una parte más de las garantías. Alfabetizar no es tarea fácil, ni es un tema sin importancia, cuando hablamos de la profundidad de esta herramienta al servicio del hombre. Educar tampoco es fácil, pero hemos de abandonar el prejuicio en un escenario en donde los hombres y mujeres pueden evitar ser manipulados por no entender la letra, por no comprender su espíritu. No podemos sumar a destiempo el lenguaje y su significado, ése que permite transformar al mundo y, también, mejorarlo.
Reading skill is one of the basic educational techniques. Student has to read fluently for further effective learning.
When to start teaching reading skills? I think that this depends on which mental and motoric level is a student. In Slovenia teachers has to prepare classes of reading and writing on different levels and levels are based on students’ previous knowledge. So in first grade he/she has three groups (first group: students who already read, second group: students who know letters, third group: students without any reading skills).
But I also think if a child shows interests for reading, parents can teach them before he/she starts with school. The best way to learn reading skill are games, first just games where they learn the letters and so on.
I think it is better to teach children to read from an early age because only in early age there is highest progress in persons’ development. However a proper age for reading should be reconsidered but keeping in mind that it would be early, pre-school age.
There are many conflicting opinions on the usefulness and effectiveness of Children Learning to read and write from an early age. Child before going to school science is often treated by their parents, who often try to force the child ambicional learning. Of course, some children are very happy and quickly learn and assimilate the letters and later words. Only here the question is asked whether such a child goes to school if will not get bored?
The task of the teacher is to not allow the child to boredom and lose attention. However, the teacher can not deal with only one student. His job is to teach children not to forbid them to learn. A child who comes to school with the basics of reading and writing are often distracted and bored in class, which can lead to its regression. Certain weaknesses in the domestic learning can go out and harmful to your child in later education.
This is a difficult subject to be decided whether the child going to school should know more than their peers. In my opinion this can not be prohibited. Parents will always strove for perfection of their child. One of them will teach him well, unfortunately, incorrectly otherwise. In a later result, teachers must cope with the problem of removing defects in writing or reading.
Best regards,
Katarzyna Weselak
I agree with the comment written by mehpare, that the best time for learning reading is different, depending on the individual development and talent of every child. The development of every child is different, some children are able to walk before they can speak and others start speaking before walking. Furthermore outside influences of the child’s environment can abet or handicap learning skills like reading. This includes for example a migration background, number of (older) siblings or educational and social background of the parents. Like krista said, also in my point of view it is really important that parents begin early to read stories to their children. Thereby it is less important that the children understand everything of the story, the main thing is that they enjoy this time with there parents and experience ready as something pleasing. But the trouble is that many parents do not take their time for reading, it is easier to seat the children in front of the TV or paddle. In Germany some parents which are really committed send their children already with three years to courses of learning English. Maybe later in school its easier for these children to learn English but I do not know if it is good for their development. Like some pedagogs say, we should watch out for do not steal the childhood of our children.
When I was 2 years old I knew all the letters of alphabet. But I think that I just recognize the shape of the letters and I could link their voice to them. I don’t know what the researches shows, but I think that children at such young age don’t know the right meaning, because they are not capable to put letters together to the word. We can’t say the reading to this. It is just memorizing of shapes. We could start to teach the child reading when he is mentally prepared for it. It also depends on every child. But we shouldn’t exaggerate with it and teach them with educational games, because he is still very young and should enjoy the childhood.
If our child already know how to read simple words it is important to tell the teacher, that she/he will prepare a little bit difficult tasks for him, that he won’t be bored.
Tamara Jenko
Question whether to start teaching children to read and to write from age of 6, as it is adopted in many countries, or whether to start e.g. from the age of 3 or less, can be only resolve by people who know development of the small children and their progress abilities.
This is a problem to be solved for pedagogues, psychologists, doctors and all the people who know well about the human body and brain activity behaviors. In my opinion, this subject is discussed more often because we want to be very efficient in work, at home and everywhere. People start being afraid of their children future because know that they will have big competition in their teenager and adult life. Parents start thinking about letting their children go to school as early as it is possible. If this is a good idea or not, we will know in dozen or several dozen years or even in a few generations.
Aneta Budzikowska
In my opinion, even though it is said that children should start to read or write at certain age, it all depends on a child, its abilities and, simply, will and need to start learning to read and write. The most significant thing is to notice when a child is ready. Obviously, it is better if it starts earlier, but there is also no worries if a child starts later- children learn much faster than adults.
Regarding to the situation of bored children who were taught how to read or write before coming to school- this is definitely a teachers fault. Solution is simple, the curriculum should be adjust to all children, their abilities, not to the average skills of 6 or 7 years old child (and what if this “average” is in minority?). Teachers and parents should observe children and have individual expectations of each of them- depending on their own psychological and physical development.
Regards,
Martyna Kosik
In mi opinion, the ability to read is a good predictor of a child’s success in school. Because school classes are composed of too many students, teachers do not have time to deal with all the great scholars.
On one hand, as a parent, you can make a difference, teaching your child to read and improving his/her vocabulary. By the age of 3 years, children hear spoken words by adults, stores them and, after a while, they start talking. Since this age, they become more responsive in terms of sounds, so they begin to make different combinations and, more importantly, they develop their vocabulary While they enrich their vocabulary, they give meaning to words learned and even learn to make them rhyme. Gradually they become more interested in what surrounds them, wanting to know more about their life environment. Considering this, I believe that the ideal age at which children can learn to read is 4 years.
On the other hand, parents should also take into account that if their child learn phonetics and writing by hand before going to school, the pupil will be very bored during classes, considering that she/he has to study what she/he already knows. It should also be taken into account that during the two or three years of preschool education, teacher directs more and more children’s activities, gradually putting up a more formal school work, so it is important to resist the urge of doing things too early.
Considering that studies say that for long-term success in school, children between 3 and 6 years old must be actively stimulated in order to think and talk about their experiences, it is necessary to mention that even if such discussions take place between children who have the same age, they also need opportunities to talk with adults in order to enrich their vocabulary and to better understand the world. But if children are not yet ready to read, an early start can damage more than anything else.
It is an important fact to do not perceive children as being brains supported on legs: they are human beings in the real sense of the word and adults have to pay equal attention to their physical, emotional, social and conceptual development, as well as to formal, cognitive one.
Best regards,
Denisa Cotirlea
Everyone says that children are our future. Yes that is true but we should let them enjoy their childhood. Children are learning so many things in early childhood that I think it is too much want them to read and count or whatever, specially if they dont want to. Children should be just children we cant make them older and more mature then they are. Yes we should lead them and show them how to live in this hasty world but as common word says: everything has its time.
Regards
Tereza Jarolímková
I think we can’t say certain times for teaching children to read or sth else. Because a child can learn reading when he is in 3 years old or he can learn so late. If a child is so smart and S/he has the ability to learn reading of course we shouldn’t wait until 5 or 6 age . ıt is noneless.Children don’t have to wait to school for reading. Think that if they learn something before the school, it can be good for them . They can feel better themselves when they understand that they know something about what they learn so we shouldn’t limit them in any cases.
Emrah OSMA
Well, I think it’s not about of the child is able to read when it is 5 years old, I think it’s better to watch what is good for the child.
on the first hand, a child can learn very quickly when it’s young. A child has more abilities to learn and the information get’s better stuck in their heads. The childhood is the basic for languages etc. So in that case it will be good to start early to teach children how to read.
But at the other hand, I think it’s also good to let the child be a child. That means that playing is really important. I think when children are playing, they are learning a lot without knowing it.
And also, what wants the child? When the child is really interesting in reading, stories and learning, it’s easier to learn him something. When the child is more interesting in playing with his teddy and toy, you can’t force a child to learn.
I think for both types of children, it’s important that the child it learns on a creative way, where playing is aloud!
Lilian Kupers
The right age for children to teach them reading or other things is very individual. I think to teach them to read in the age before 3 years old it´s too soon. In this age children have a lot of stimuli with which they have to handle. I think it´s also not good when children can read before they go to school, because then they are bored at school and interrupt the class. I think it´s ok when children know some letters before they go to school because after that they have some bases and it´s easier for them. I think children have to play games and to be children , in the future they will have a lot of time for reading and writing. I think that nowadays children become adults so fast.
Regards Dagmara Dolejska
For me, the question about in what age is the appropriate age for learning how to read cannot be answered. I think that if a child is ready and has the capacity to learn how to read at any age, as parents or guardians, you should motivate and promote it. The argument that children should learn this together at school because otherwise the children who already know how to get bored is like saying that every child learn at the same rhythm and speed, which we all know is not true. I cannot stop thinking that maybe the system of starting school at the same age is not the correct way of approaching education. Maybe is should be based on other factors rather than age. There have been done exceptions in the past. Children put in a higher grade and children starting school a little later than the rest. I think that maybe these rare exceptions are not a bad idea. Maybe, just maybe we should make these kinds of exceptions a part of the school system. I feel that the system today cheats a lot of the children. There are many pupils that are constantly ahead of the class, but have to slow down the learning process because of the curriculum in each grade. We focus our attention on the pupils with difficulty following the rest of the class, maybe we at the same time forget the pupils who are already excellent?
Runa C Rognli
Many thanks Runa, your are working hard from the cold Norway. Keep in contact.
Un abrazo. JM.
Every child can´t learn reading and writing in the same age because of every child has different capacity,mental development. Although we know this fact, there are a lot of problems in education system. For example, in Turkey, students start to go to school when they are seven years old. Some students can learn that reading and writing but some students can not learn reading and writing. And I think this is not the student’s failure, this is failure of the education system. I think before students go to primary school, there should be classes how appropriate for the capacity of every child. This method is so quality and efficient not only for students but also for theachers.
Best Regards,
Seyma AKKUS
Children are really smart and it is always easy to learn something new for them. For that reasons we can not talk about waiting for the appropriate age and mental development. If we try teaching a child reading and writing, for example, at the age of three, I believe they will easily be able to learn. However, the question should be that if we need to teach them reading and writing such early ages or children need to learn them in those early ages. I think no. Because, I believe, every age has its own opportunities and “beauty”. Children do not need to start the “life” early so we can just leave them with their toys and plays. For these reasons, children do not need to be taught reading and writing such early ages; because, sooner or later children will be taught them about at the age of six or seven when they start school. However, if a child wonders how to write and read, of course we can help and answer his/her questions.
Saliha Gökçe Özata
I don’t think that there should be an idea like: “Children should start to read before school or on the proper ages.” Yes, they can learn to read or write with their families’ support, before the school. In my opinion, if the children are taught to read in early ages, they will gain courage when they start school, noticing that they are facing the same environment. Furthermore, this fact will make their mind open to learn. Surely, they will have a wider concept in learning. In that case, teachers have a greater role to arrange these individuls in class as it’s mentioned in the article.
Regards../Altay Ozturk
I heard about this innovation, but I think it’s stupid. I do not know why something like this implemented. If the child is so smart why not .. as early as kindergarten, children learn the basics of English, but it still is not reading and writing. So far, only learn to speak from eavesdropping.
A child with such knowledge, they are bored then scatters the attention of others, and thus reduces the quality of all teaching. The child then (and with him his parents) usually overlook the moment when the material ceases being discussed enough andlater axle is very difficult and complicated.
Definitely think it will be great differences among children. If the whole class can not read, and with them is much easier to work, but once a few children will be able toread and even write, it will only let outside distractions and concentrate other pupils.So I do not agree.
I think that you can not set a specific limit of time to start teaching children to read, because everyone is growing and the formation of his personality at different speeds. I think a child under 6 years of age should not be forced to learn to read, unless he wants by him self.
Regards, Mantas Salkauskas
I think the best time to teach a child to read is when the child says, “Mom, can you teach me to read?” or “Dad…” or “someone, please, just teach me to read already!” Kids are ready at different times. The key is, read TO your child, and pretty soon they will ask. I think reading to your child is the very best way to get them interested in reading.
Zane Nīkrence
I think the best time to teach a child to read is when the child says, “Mom, can you teach me to read?” or “Dad…” or “someone, please, just teach me to read already!” Kids are ready at different times. The key is, read TO your child, and pretty soon they will ask. I think reading to your child is the very best way to get them interested in reading.
It’s not exactly specified when the child began to read, but my point of view about this is sooner, better. At the Faculty of Education in Slovenia we had didactics of literature. This subject talked about reading. It is important that children read quality books, not just those offered by the publishers, but especially those proposed by the teacher. In so doing, the teacher must be careful to choose the right books, this means that she/he must have significant expertise on all types of books.
It’s also very important that students read in class. The teacher has encourage this. When I had Teacher Practicum on bilingual school in Huelva, I notice that students have subject called reading. Here they read books from class library. I think that this is good for them, to read every day moreover they also like this subject very much.
We know surely that every cgildren are different. But all of the children start to go to school at 7 years old in Turkey which is my country. But I think this isn’t true. Because the students have got different capacities. Some of them interested in reading and writing than the others. For example my cousin learned reading and writing herself before her primary school when she was 4 years old. I know that caring every student in a country is impossible. But their families should pay attention to their children and then they should speak an expert. So this can be better not only for children but also for government.
Best Regards..
Demet DURAK.
In my opinion, in general we cannot say the exact time when start to teach children to read. Every child matures in another time so that is why everything about it is individual. The school matureness is enacted by the age of 6 and to be honest, I agree with this. Children till 6 years old, they learn to be standalone, keep the basic rules of behaviour and learn to have a sense of responsibility and duties. Most children in kindergarten know letters and some of them can read any syllable, but that is all. As I said, everything is individual so if the child shows interest in letters and reading there is no problem to start to teach him / her. Otherwise I would let the child until he / she starts to be interested in reading or until he / she starts to have the age for school.
Regards
Katka Hamouzova
I think some people have an exaggerated respect attitude over the schools. They think that making the children read is just the schools’ job.But what if the children request this action -to read-? Should the parents deny it? I think this will affect the children in a bad way. For example, if you realize that your child can eat by himself, will you get angry with him and will you go on making him eat by your help? That’s not a correct behaviour. Because some children are interested in learning more than the others. They can be interested in the letters or the numbers. And the thought about their being bored in the classroom in the case of learning what is already known is not so important. Because if this child is learning before than the others, he will probably get bored again. The parents shouldn’t make their children lose this motivation, because they may while waiting to learn. On the contrary, they should motivate them by giving them presents about learning the letters, this may be books with pictures and figures etc.and they can read with them. For example in Turkey, the age to start studying in a school is six. But there is not a scientific evident proving that a children starts to learn at the age of six. So, prevent children from learning is unreasonable.
Best regards,
Demet Dilber
Hard is to estimate tendences and skills at the beggining of the human life, even if it is your own child. Obvious issue for parents is to do best for descendents although to make decission when start to teach reading can be difficult. Appropriate moment is almost impossible to define for general, in my opinion is really inividual question, but trough playing parents should observe and try to involve not only imagines but letters as well. It is not good for children to start too soon, nor to start too late. In my opinion general age for start reading is 6-7 years old.
Regards,
AS
I think that every child is different and, in my opinion, the time to start teaching children to read is really individual and depends on the ability of each child. We have to pay attention to their personalities and potentials to decide about when to start teaching them to write and read. There is no doubt that each child develops differently, and so, it can be complicated to find a system that makes everybody happy. I think we should try to teach literacy from the earliest years, but in a kind of learning-playing way (with fairy tales, games, child stories…), and for me, learning through play has only benefits, and no disadvantages. This kind of way could help children to learn literacy and improves child’s concentration, abilities, creativity and develop their memory in the same time. Moreover, children are born with a very huge potential to learn, and the first years of our existence are the best to learn literacy.
Ariane Renouprez
Every child is developing differently. I don’t think there is any deadline when to start to educate children. But it think people should start as fast as they can, and i think that parents shouldn’t leave it to school only. Parents should educate, try to learn reading, writing etc. before school. And teachers should adapted the curriculum to the weakest students, that can’t learn so fast, so they don’t feel worse that other students.
Child psychology and pedagogy in recent years has taken significant steps forward. Now it is no secret to anyone that the child could start to read and write not only at five years age, but also at four and unusual case even at three years old. In some discussions are often some questions, like:” Is it necessary to do it so early?” and if it is necessary to teach to children read so early, then who is responsible for that?
Of course both parents and teacher are responsible for that. Parents at early childhood need start to read for child, because it is the best form have to provide successful child individually and professional life development. Because the parents are the first environment for the child and they need to show an example that it is very important to read, think and get to know everything. Moreover reading with interest – it’s the key of learning.
And the teacher has also a big part in the child development. They need to be a children role model, try to make interest in new things and also need to help who needs the help. Because in schools children have a lot of pressure if they can`t handle it, for example, if they cant read so good as do another child. And this is the point when teacher need to “stand up” and help to make feel interest in reading.
Reqularity in reality is simple: if the child in early age acquired reading skills, more successfully he will be at school and more higher will be his intellectually potential.
Krista Karlsone
learning age is different each child.we can thınk that everychıld starts when they are 6-7 years old,ıf learnıng age is diferent why are they start same tıme? that’s a problem ın educatıon system.I am thınkıng about that when ı was ın fırst class,We were running for be first person who is read.and than chıldren who are succesful,were winnig ribbon for can read.but ıt is not fairly because that mustn’t be shame for a child who can’t read. ı think before didn’t go to school,A test should have been done to know that what is their learnıng age? so that pre-school educatıon age should have been determined.educatıon quality will be better.
I think the ideal age of the sixth age of the children. In general, children in this age, becoming more conscious and aware of what happens in the. In other words, become more intelligent and open to communication at this age. Children under six years of age in the age of the game yet. First, children’s personalities and abilities bring to the fore, is more important than reading and writing. In my opinion, you must complete before personalities. Of course reading and writing is important, but better and easier to learn reading and writing need to be prepared before the sub-structure. Of education is more suited to be at an early age. Works quite well in the mind of children at an early age. So I think education in the sixth age is very suitable. Of course, this is my idea …
Regards;
Hediye SOYORAL
Aside from today’s and future students, the purpose of teaching, the first read-write; to me, just like reading and writing skills, but also thinking, comprehension, classification, ranking, query, analysis-synthesis, relationship building, and includes the development of mental skills as well as making the assessment.
giving the award to teach students to read
HÜLYA KİPER
Aside from today’s and future students, the purpose of teaching, the first read-write; to me, just like reading and writing skills, but also thinking, comprehension, classification, ranking, query, analysis-synthesis, relationship building, and includes the development of mental skills as well as making the assessment.
giving the award to teach students to read
HÜLYA KİPER
I think that it’s hard to say when child should start to learn read., which age is proper. In my opinion it is depend from personality. Someone can learn it ealier than other. So we can’t say that this age is proper or this. It’s impossible
Karolina Stefanczyk
An article moves very interesting topic. Nowadays, every state makes its best to have as high educational level as it is possible. On the one side it is good, becouse the quicker children start to learn something, the more intelligent they will be after the course. But on the other side, I think that it is not so fine when children are stolen from their childhood, I mean that it is bad to treat kindergardens like a normal school when children are taught how to write, how to read, basics of mathematics, etc. The general idea of kindergardens is to prepare children to live in a society, with another children and to be ready later attending to school. In my opinion it is enought when children start to learn thins like math or writing in first year of primary school. But another thing that I wanna to say few words about is that parents should help children with their homeworks and things that they were taught in schools. Parents should not believe that only teachers are to teach. Everyone of us is a teacher for another pepople and we should not forget about it.
In my oppinion is better when kids have first experience with reading at home, not in a school. Because at home is access to kid more individual like in a school. Yes, maybe there are some parts which are telling that when the kid knows how to read before he/she start the school, he/she can be bored in a class, but on the other side in this age there is so many kids in schools all over the world which has problem with reading. Therefore I´m thinking that is better for kids when parents start to read with him/her before school.
On the other side everything depends on development of every kids separated.
Best Regards
Lenka Gažovičová
It is not good when a child is forced to learn too early without taking into account the natural process of psychological development of children, however, do not forget that you can not allow your child to everything you want is very important to me because according to science by the approach
Best Regards, Wojtek
The child must be hold oneself ready for the realization of learning to read and write. Pre-school period, which is ready for reading and writing if we prevent a child it can be a big fault. A child isn’t ready for this learning to read and write so much pressure to do wrong. These are same thing. But some children will be motivated on their own and they can read and learn on their own. Because this children want to solve the meaning of. Thet are the real early readers. I think seven year olds are learning much more quickly and they are doing and loving it more likely that five year olds in development of reading difficulties. So families shouldn’t force at an early age their children for write and read..
Best regards
Pelin Uğurlu
I think,we can identify reading age with child’s level of intelligence.If a child isn’t capable of reading very early age,you shouldn’t force children for read.This situation can handicap enthusiasm for reading.Also,we consider the negative effects of media on the reading and in this context parents and teachers work very hard.So we need develop a variety of methods for make enjoyable the read book.
Kind regard
Ü.Seçil İNAN
Very intrigued me this article and I thought immediately about educational campaign, which is popular in my country, Poland. This campaign is called: ´´Poland Reads to Kids´´. Famous Polish people encourage parents to read daily at least 20 minutes a day to your children, it helps the children develop imagination and creativity. When a child hears an interesting story that asks many questions and the surrounding world is interesting. It is easier to encourage in this way the child to learn reading, which can not be forced but a child must make it fun and make a better world-world of dreams. Learning to read before going to school-so but in a fun and support for parents.
Best regards,
Malgorzata Rugala
I think that maybe it depends on the parents when the children should start to read. Of course they should all start to read at the same time at school because we can not wait for other children to catch up. But I believe that if the parents feel that their children are ready then they must take the first step and try to put some time aside and start teaching them the basics.
Although I personlly think that if the child is showing signs of high intelligence at a young age then they should start reading as soon as possible and enhance their brains but otherwise let them be children. Don’t take away their childhood from them as you never get it again. But overall I think children should all start reading at the same time when they are around the age of 5.
Heather Sunderland
I think it is very important to teach children to read and write before going to school. My opinion is that parents should read them since they are small children, read them stories and then they will be able to read alone. A child whose parents talk to him all the time, read him stories and singing songs, even if he does not understand everything, start talking faster than other children of his age, and from the age of 3-4 years, I think it is time to begin to write and read, because children are very receptive to that age. Equally important is to not force them to do anything that they will not do, because this process is quite complex and difficult and even if the first is based mainly on photographs that he recognize, in the games designed to stimulate them to read, is a very important step that takes time and patience, both from parents and child.
If every parent expects to send their child to school at the age of 6-7 years to learn to read and write, the teacher has not only a child that he learn to read and write at the same time, and children require exclusivity, will be easier to read with mom or dad than with your teacher.
Another reason that I think it is important for which a child can read before going to school is the time, because time is limited, a few hours a week for writing and reading not enough, plus other disciplines like math, then the child program will be too busy and children need free time to play and to do other activities.
A child who can read and write before going to school, will be in advantage over others who do not knows these things and will be easier to cope when he go to school, he will substantiate what already learned from his parents and I do not think that they will get bored at all, if they have a positive perception of reading and writing process, acquired from parents.
Cristina Lucia Ianc
Unfortunately I have to say with bitterness that nowadays children do not read. Times when reading was a hobby for many children disappeared irremediably. Reading create children’s imagination, let them move to another world and build their personality. Now instead of reading there is tend to watch. Books are displaced by computers and fake intelligence. It is sad but holly truth that now children in the age of 11- 12 often have problems with reading. It is disquieting that they are not able to use the beauty of the language. We can say that it is lack in their education.
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Monika Kłopot
The question is very important but also very difficult. From my point of view , children should start to teach reading at the age of 6 years old. In my opinion children should focus on their creativity at the age of 4 or 5 years old, they should play the games , they should develop their imagination etc. children should let be children as long as possible. Of course, we can introduce first letter, first simple words that will be easier for children at primary school. Some say that the beast way is to teach children as early as it is possible and the result will be better in the future. But let’s think it over- we cannot take the children their childhood. It is true that introducing reading and writing at a young age can be very beneficial for a child but I prefer to do it step by step. Furthermore we have to take into account child’s abilities. Some children are pushed by their parents and it is not the right way. We cannot put pressure on our child. We should remember that learning is lifelong process so there is no waste when our child won’t start to learn reading sat the age of 2 or 3 years.
Best regards,
Olga Tomas
I think that learning to read and write depends of children, it is known that every humanbeing is unique, so we can’t wait that all children start to read and write at the age of 3 or 5. Of course these abilities are such what parents can teach and develop.
I have personal conact with writing, when I was 8 years old, I had problems with writing (especially with the consonats, when they are written long, when not) but I get help and now it has gone better and better.
Miina Haugas
I also think that every child is different and individual and we should take into account their personalities and potentials to decide about when to start teaching them to write and read. In my opinion we should try to teach it from the earliest years, but in a way “learning through play” in order to let them having their own childhood as well. I think that children are like a sponge, they can absorb the knowledge that we serve them very easy. We (teachers, parents) should take advantage of that and try to learn our children as much as it is possible in that period. In my opinion for a child learning through play has only benefits, it improves child’s imagination, concentration and develop memory.
Best regards,
Anna Pałucha
In my opinion the time when start to teach children read is totally individual and depends on the personality of each child. Because there is no doubt that each child develops differently and we have to take into account this important fact.
But from my point of view it is good for children when they start to learn reading and writing at an earlier age, I mean before age of 6. It is good to start with fairy tales, stories, games, drawings etc.
Children in early age are open to informations, they are usually interested in funny games so why not…It is good to utilize their potential from my point of view!
Kind regards,
Michaela Máchová
Children are born with an enormous potential to learn. It seems to me that there are no time limits on when a child should start reading or learn something. We shouldn’t be afraid that child will lose childhood. If science proceeds in an appropriate manner, we can say that there is no difference between learning to read, and have fun. A few minutes of reading does not take a lot of time devoted to play, but only help to spice it. Early educational games increases a child’s intellectual capabilities and will help in improving concentration and memory.
According to me the most important thing in the early teaching of reading is essential to provide learning through play.
Best regards,
Katarzyna Jaśkiewicz
I had many troubles with my literacy training…i hated it, I never could do cursive-writing, till this day I write every letter separate from the other. It’s partly because of my fault of course, but I was in education for 12 years and the school system never aided me in this matter.
I heard parents brag about there child’s teacher who teaches reading till Christmas and to write all the letters by the end of first year…I just asked too my self: why? Where’s the rush? This is a fundamental thing: literacy…(I hated reading in primary school, because I was bad of it, but still that should never had happen.) You will use it through your life…not like sinus or cosine…every child has it’s own rhythm and the parents should feel it.
This means for a parent it is duty to show everything to there child and push the limit to that fine point. And the most important is for the child to understand the connection of the given task to his or her own self
Tamás Gádor
Reading is very important for children. Reading develops a child’s imagination, expanding vocabulary and communication skills and developing memory. Every child is different, so initially you can only view books, telling stories by pictures and your imagination. It should know a relatively small child, about one year of age. When a child shows interest, it is good support him/her in that.
I found on the internet some program for reading “Reach Out and Read“ where children begin to read from 6 months! It is very interesting.
But I think, always depends on the child.
Best regards,
Barbora Tkadlecová
Sometime especially gifted children want to learn earlier than their peers so they can read before they go to school. But in my opinion the children should stay the children as long as it possible, why should we take them their childhood? The age to start learning is different for every child.
Before they go to school, they should do pre-reading activities (playing with letters and different shapes, telling some story, write their names etc.) teaching shouldn´t be targeted only to the reading. But if the child wants to learn, I thing, that it is no problem when he/she learns reading.
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Zuzana Říhová
Buen artículo. Yo opino que los niños pequeños son una esponja por lo que deberían aprender a leer lo más temprano posible, ya que mientras más pequeños son, más fácil es aprender.
So, I think there is no such frase as »too soon« in discusion of teaching children how to read. Literracy is still not available to everyone and those who can »afford« it, should spread it to other people, especially their children. Furthermore it’s never too soon to start teaching your kid how to walk, speak, read or write. It will only give him advantage in order to improve his knowledge once he will start learning it in school.
And i strongly disagree with sentence that children with greater knowledge than others would be bored in school. It’s true that it’s teachers responsibility to prevent this and he should do everything to not let this happen, as in giving extra homeworks and exercises. Because we can only be proud and happy for one child if he has more knowledge already from before. We should encourage this. He will not be bored in school, but we have to make sure that he improves his knowledge.
For example I was learning english as first foreign language since I was 5 years old. There was a group of my 7 other classmates. And in 4th grade, all class had to start learning english, and after 5 years of learning english ofcourse we had more knowledge than other. But we weren’t bored, because we got extra exercises, we were asked questions by our schoolmates, we actually helped them a little bit. It depends on the way that teacher teaches.
So for the end, my opinion is that we should teach our kids to speak, write, read as soon as possible, because it is true that the knowledge baby gets in his first years is fundamental for his future. Babies or children if you want, they learn faster than older people. Why not take advantage of it and benefit of it?
Best regards,
Tjaša Kokalj
In my opinion all children are different and their skills depends of many conditions. First of all living environment, parents attention into child development and event into future. But in every way, nowadays the new generation are developing way faster so I would support the idea of teaching children earlier or every time he is ready to start learn. If a child is clever and is interested and a fast learner, parents should force a child in any case they should try to make a decision when to start educating them.
Best regards,
Raimonda Poceviciute
Children has a big capacity of learning and we can use their these times with teaching. So I do not think that it is a mistake teaching before six or less. They are willing for learning about everything and they open information to understand quickly and they can. We,adults can not learn as quick as children. I do not propose that. It was proved by science. In this case there is no problem to teach reading ealier. Anyhow when they grow up,they will start to be bored like we have been bored. As a result ,I am completely agree with Glenn Doman.
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Derya Babacan
I heard that children’s brain is like a sponge, absorbing everything in huge amounts. If the child’s brain is so very active in early stage of life why not starting to teach children to read at 3? There are hundreds of children books (age 1+) with letters and numbers and I think it is a wise decision to let children play with those books. The sooner they learn to read the better their progress in school will be. It is easier for kids to follow and understand the programme if their reading skill level is adequate. Reading in this society is important as breathing to sustain our lives. If we have to learn to breathe as soon as we are born, why not learn to read as soon as possible?
Cheers,
Darijo Krivaja
When we think about Children’s developmental characteristics, individual differences, abilities, and family structures ,then we can say some children are 2 years old, some children 3-4 years old may be ready to start pre-school education. Several studies in children receiving pre-school education, the school’s success showed that a higher. If parents can be as comfortable as anything about their child for to start kindergarten, the children and they have less trouble.
Lots of talk with children about the school before going to there, to introduce children slowly with the activities of school is important. For example, cutting paper with scissors, and doing smth with paint pens .. It makes him/her more relieved to see the same paper and paints in kindergarten.Preschool education completely removes the problems of reading and writing. So I think 6 or 7 years too late for reading and writing (except for special cases). When I was 4 years old, I went to a kindergarten and at age 5 i started to primaryschool.(normally its unusual in my country) First, I remember my parents lived in doubt,they wondered if they did wrong to send me more earlier. In The primary school,a student who learns to read the first was wearing ribbons. when this ribbon was fitted to me,all the worriesof my parent disappeared. It worked on me so i think it works =)
Best Regards
Zeynep Yaman
I think this article useful.No expert knowledge about this subject for me, I said things to estimate.Each child’s learning level is different, it is possible to minimize the difference.Without pumping, and encouraging way to learn how the child are interested, lack of learning or problem may disappear.Various conditions, can link the time of the child learning to read.For example, the attitude of the family, the child’s mental structure, psychological status, etc.Since the birth of, to read the earlier studies done , it is possible the child’s early reading.
e.g ; from an early age, songs frequent speeches, to play in the colorful books, to promote objects, and to awaken interest in the first stages.Then, often reading a book, familiarity with the words provided. Understanding of rather than, the sound familiarity and rhythm are important.The child wants the selecting books to read every day, go to the library together, these steps after the child starts to learn the alphabet.Obviously, the child’s reading age may be 4-5 but what it happens to benefit the future?
Child’s early learning, does not mean everything to learn from an early.My opinion is that the child should be child.Learn when it comes time to learn a complex activity such as reading already.
If I am a parent, my child sing songs, read books, play games, but my aim do not want to read an early.
regards
Gülhanım Gülşah Şener
In my opinion, it is better for children to learn reading as earlier as possible. When kids manage to self-sufficient,i think he/she can learn how to read or to write.Covering the period of 0-6 years of early childhood, the child develops in the fastest period,ever.Two-thirds portion of the development of brain structure and function is completed between the ages of 0-4. Early childhood experiences decisive functional form of the brain.In early childhood education is the starting point of human development.So ,a little bit earlier than 6 years old, I think that children can go to kindergarten or slots, that can be the way to start.
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Nihat ARSLAN
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thıs ıs very good task.Child psychologists are generally protective of children in the late development, with below-average intelligence and its individual components unevenly developed. I believe that it is very difficult to learn how to read and write before the sixth year to children which are not mentally mature for it. Lot of kids have some problems with read and write for long time during their primary school attendance
I think it is not also difficult for children to learn the reading and writing (simple words and very simple sentences) during their preschool education. I know many situations when it happened like this (so it is possible) and they really enjoyed their primary education because they were the best and could give the answers to their teacher in the primary school faster than the others. They can be “used” like “little teachers” for their colleagues and they will not be bored anymore; they will really like this and will feel themselves more important in the class.
Games are also solutions in this respect. Simple puzzles with words or simple scrabbles can be used to teach them simple words, too. The images and photos with big letters or on which big words are written can be useful as well. As a matter of fact, I think that games are very important in school all the time, no matter the age of the pupil or even student.
There should also be all the time ‘a generation of sacrifice’, meaning that we can try to apply a system when children learn how to read and write at an earlier age, and the results will help us to better understand if this is a good thing for children and community as well. The system and society can be improved with the results that will be obtained.
I also believe that even if the Parliament or other authority will decide that they should learn how to read or write at 2, 3 or 5, 6 years, this authority should never forget that no matter the age they have, they are still children and the schools and teachers should be endowed with materials and the capacity to make them understand what they write and read and how to read and write in a correct and very easy way. best regards. TUBA EKİNCİ
In my opinion, age-related learning as a process based on the cognitive development theory can explain. Mental development in order to explain the very different, and by putting forward a comprehensive perspective, this process begins from birth and continuing until adulthood period. According to this understanding and problem-solving abilities of children progresses periods qualitative improvements. Observed and features of each period include the preceding periods.
SONGÜL AKBALIK
The unborn baby to be beneficial to talk to what extent, for a long time is expressed by the experts. I think the mother and father, the mother’s womb may submit their love to him by talking dolls. ‘d Tell him, touching the lives of their own true stories, convinced that the baby helps to prepare to life. Most children between the ages of 0-5 years as determined öğrenebildikleri. In developed countries, children in this age Uploading too. For example, literacy in the UK reduced the age of four. So does the United States. I witnessed the same practice in Australia. Never too late to introduce kids into bed that evening book book kalınmamalı giriyor.Çocukları. Books that have prepared so beautiful! Babies have a tendency to tear the hands of a known fact that the books. So torn cloth books for babies are being produced. Also be used in the bathroom, not torn and not affected by water production of books, children’s reading habit wins sooner, the better the supporting argument. In addition, audio books produced in the Far East, children are among their düşüremedikleri. Enhance the sense of touch, a variety of furs of animals, such as skin made of the same picture books are also very nice. A rabbit, a cat, a deer duyumsayabilmek stroking, do you like children. In addition, there are smelling books. Illustrated books, strawberry, apple, peach smell what the smell is not nice to seeDid he him in a? Thus, children at a young age all the sensory organs, the book recognizes, loves and is learning to see themselves as part of her life.
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Mehmet Agit GOKTAS
I my opinion it’s stupid when a child should learn to read when it’s 2 or 3 years old. I mean this is a child and normally you learn reading in grammar school when you are 6 years old and that’s enough. Learning is a lifelong process and we all have to learn the whole life so I think we should give the children the first six years to be a child and to learn to walk, to speak, to play with other kids, to share their toys … just to be a kid and to have fun and play the whole day, because afterwards it is going to school for more than 10 years, then maybe to university and after that to work and there is enough to learn and to work hard.
So, the first six years should only be fun for the kids, because they have to learn enough anyway.
Best wishes
Laura Weiss
Thinking over about right time to teach a child to read and write is completely clear question which already has an answer.
If we all step back and look it from the distance, we can notice that every single thing which was already done in our life, could never be learned too quick especially if we look it from the educational or professional aspect. You can only take advantages from it if you learn it sooner and then the things are much clearer and without any hesitation you can upgrade knowledge. On the other hand if we do comparison with the professional sport, all the recommendations are telling us to start as soon as it is possible. So you are never too young to start developing your skills and we have to also mention never too old! Life learning process is without ending so we should not be bothered by: when is the right time, but just starting when and what our mind sets off. As role models to our kids we should represent learning trough different never the same games and teach and show them on the fun way the things they still do not know. The capability of learning trough the different technique should involve the method of adjusting yourself in the level of child age.
So at the end worries about that the child is bored in the classroom are completely inappropriate and a teacher can always organize an extra activity for those who are wishing and are desperate to gain more, from what they already know.
Warm Regards
Anja Dimič-Andlovič
Slovenia
: I think children are smart and they can be able to learn to read much earlier then what they do today in school, but to begin with a one year old and try to learn this kid letters, and then at the age of two make this kid read sentences, well; I just don’t agree that that is something we should do. Today we are so concerned about educating children and they start school earlier and earlier. It makes me wonder, when can children be children? When a 6 year old has so much homework that he doesn’t have neither time nor energy to play with his friends after school, I say something has gone wrong. If a parent wants to prepare its child for school and teach its child some letters or easy reading, so be it, but please, don’t forget that children has a need to be nothing more than children, and not some good intended grown up’s lump of clay.
I agree with progressive view on people’s education and its result in the future. It seems that if a child is given proper stimulation at very young age it can achieve good results later.
Another issue, is the case of education in general, it does not only take place in classrooms. That is the reason why we should give every child a mean to educate by themselves and that is when literacy plays a grand role.
Best regards,
Eimante
‘When my child is going to read’ is a real problem for parents.Because they want to do the best for their children and sometimes they choose the wrong way.I think children should learn reading as possible as a game.Because in that ages, children are more careful to learn everything.As Pat Wolfe, EdD, education consultant, former teacher, and author of Building the Reading Brain, reported:
Ages 4-5: learning pre-reading skills
Ages 6-10: learning to read
Ages 11-13: “reading to learn”
According to this fact reading can be taught in an easy and game way.Because we should not forget this,they are still children.Also it is an individual fact and we can not force them to read earlier.Furthermore it is possible that, early learners may be bored in the classroom while their peers are still trying to learn.But this is not a problem of that children.It is about teachers.Because teachers can interest this children to the lesson. They can make this children help others and improve their reading skills.
In sum up, government should teach teachers for this new early readers about how to control them in the classroom and families should care to teach basic reading skills.
Best regards,
Selin Dasdemir
I think the question of when to teach children to read and write is very individual and educational standards are given for a reason having regard to the psychological development of children. They are children who should not learn to read before entering school. There are children with poorer attention. It may not have directly impaired concentration, just being a little more careless and can not concentrate for a long time. Children commonly can’t pay attention for more than ten minutes. But if the child is unable to concentrate on one activity even five minutes, it is not appropriate before entering the school to learn anything. Indeed, when will know what the school will discuss, will be forced to give up work, they will get bored and get used to it that they do not pay attention. In the event that the fault was more serious, or he / she showed dysgraphia, dyslexia, etc., him/her should be in school given more reasonable care, may be assigned a teaching assistant.
The school should ensure all children a basic education including reading, writing and arithmetic. But when a child is able to read, it is good to practice reading at home. The best is definitely the fairy books, fairy tales as they are entertaining and interesting for children.
If we have a child with attention deficit, we should be in school with teachers to agree on how we should teach our children and how to read and practice reading it. If we use other methods than the teacher, it can confuse a child and then it will not know what is wanted from him.
Best regards, Lenka Součková
A very interessting article, as far as I can understand the english translation. The article deals with the question if there is a fixed point to learn reading. And if it’s the task of governement and school to intervene right there.
In my opinion reading is an essential part of education, and it’s hard to learn children reading, if they are not ready for it.
Reading skills differ very much when children start school. Some are already able to read little books, other don’t even know th single letters. And it’s not just the support that the children had got before but the individual developement. In my family, for example, where huge differences in the developement of reading skills: When I started school I already read little storys and I loved it. My younger brother, in contrast couldn’t even read his own name and he felt like he was forced to read. It took him two years to get fluent and today there is no difference anymore between his and my reading. My point is that I don’t think that there is one point-doesn’t matter if it’s 3 or 6 years- where you sould be forced to read. I, myslf think, that we should give children as much space as possible to develope.
In my opinion every child is different and their skills are developing in the different ways. I think nowadays the new generation are developing way faster so I would support the idea of teaching children to read earlier. Why not? If a child is interested and a fast learner, parents should decide and notice the potential of the child. Of course, they should not force a child in any circumstances, but they should try to make a decision on when actually to start educating them.
Best regards,
Rosita Kausiute
Some children show considerable curiosity when it comes to writing lyrics and reading from the fourth or fifth year. Other children, even if they are later to be teachers of native language will not be ready sooner than seven years. According to T. Gould’s ability to read behaves like any other kind of talent. Some children have a special feeling for reading, as there is such a feeling for the music or rhythm. These children will then clamor for reading earlier and would be a pity to deny them such opportunity. But other children, who make up the majority, it will not soon read anything particularly good. For a child identified the letters, usually not particularly difficult for them, but to understand what reading is already complicated and requires a certain maturity.
Best regards,
Adam Svorc
hello
it is an important topic and has been argued so long.for me it is a difficult process because it wont be easy to put this on children but anyway,as the children are inclined to learn in these ages after a few time it will be easy.in y country reading and writing begin to be taugth at 7,but i believe that children should be faced the alphabet before that age.this will be better for them
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mustafa OZKAN
Most definetly we should teach kids how to write and read in younger age than 6. I am not talking about placing them in front of the desk and force them to do tests or write paragraphs. I am talking about introduce them to letters, about make them feel comfortable with letters,words and sentences. And I thing it should be done in form of game,play or just simple conversation. It is possible that it will be to early for them but if not we expose them for delay in education.
All the best
Karol Wasielewski
It’s quite difficult for me to answer the question because I’m neither psychologist nor pedagogue. I’m not sure what age the brain is developed enough to learn reading. Despite I guess it’s earlier than 6 years old, I’m not sure if it’s so important to teach children reading in age three or four. Of course later it would be easier for them to learn more and more but firstly I would check if child is interested in reading and if yes I would teach that and if not I would let him to grow up more and spend his time on another creative activities, games and plays. The problem occurs … pupils in primary school would be not in equal level then and it would be hard to find solution for that issue. Here the individual attitude is needed.
Best regards,
Monika Brzezińska
Dear Monika:
Tomorrow you will be mother, what do you think it’ll be better for your children?
Thanks, regards.
José Manuel Bautista.
i think this article interesting… nowadays alphabetise should not be possible if you have the chance to be in develop countries.. like spain, england, bulgarie, russia… develop countries have everything to educate kids! but in my opinion i think its quite late to not be able to read at 5 years old… i dont remember about me when i was that age but in my memories i think i was able to read .. im giving my opinion because my little brother is going to turn 6 years old quite soon and its not able to read and i dont even know if he knows the letter and i think at this ages you should be able to read and even writing! because i have a past experience meeting a russian girl who was able to calculate some figures that us werent able to do …. i think children is more capable than anything!! and read to learn !!
alexandra felix
Cuándo enseñar a leer los niños? Sin duda alguna es un tema que nos ocurre desde muchos años… realmente encontramos muchas opiniones en este tema pero todavía no sabemos la cuál opción debemos elegir. Sin embargo, hay muchas familias las que creen que es mejor empezar a enseñar sus hijos desde pequeños y yo también pienso así. Como vivimos en los tiempos del siglo XXI, en los que la gente se desarrolla muy rápio y con un efecto increíble por esa razón aumenta la necesidad de desarrollarse desde pequeño. Lo que es la más importante, sobre todo, tenemos que recordar que podemos enseñar niños por juegos infantiles que son mejores que los juegos por los que se paga algunas veces un montón de dinero y al final no sirven para nada. No creo que sea muy difícil introducir a la vida de los niños pequeños los juegos que pueden desarrollar sus pensamiento desde pequeños por entretimiento y enseñar. Tampoco creo que es demasiado tarde enseñar a los niños entre 6-7 años, en mi opinión es muy tarde.
Izabella Mika
It’s very difficult question and I’m not psychologist. But I think best way is as early as possible. But every child is little bit different. In Czech Republic children start learning writing and reading when they are 6/7 years old. For some child it can by late other way for someone early, that is the question for parents and for teachers in primary school, they have to feel if the child is smart more than average is and give him space for his creativity.
Lukas Kramsky
In my opinion, we should start to teach reading to the children when they are six years old. Not earlier and not later. Because before 6 years old is very important for the children’s creativity.Children should just focus playing games and improve their creativities. And after six years old can be late for them…
This is very interesting subject, and i kind of haven’t made my mind about it. There’s good sides in both ways, teach child to read at age of three or at age of six.
I think that children should let be children as long as possible. But when the schools starts, kids should learn how to read quite fast. And literacy is the most important skill in school. If your reading is weak, it will influence every other subject eventhough child doesn’t have problems with that subject.
So i think, that kids should be initiate to the alphabet before going to the school. And of course if child is shows that he/she learns fast, you could teach the child how to read.
But i don’t think that every child should be taught reading at age of three.
-Pauliina K.
It’s a really important question and in my opinion, early we teach them better it is for their future. The thing is that is really good to teach them early but we have to find a way didactic to do it. The teaching way shouldn’t be too scholastic but funnier with fairy tales, games, drawings, … After that, if some of them can’t learn because it’s may be too early for them, we must be careful and don’t try to compel them. If we try to compel them, then they can be blocked to learn something and it can be a huge problem for a long time. That’s why if a child doesn’t want to learn early, how to read and write, we have to be really clever and find way to attract him like games… because step by step it’s possible to get incredible skills.
Naïma M’Rabet
In my opinion it’s better to begin to teach the children as early as possible even if all of them are completely and can be more or less open to learn. Early you know how to write and read, early you can learn new languages, read books, … After that, I think that the parents are really important to help a child to learn how to write and read because the teacher don’t use to spend a lot of time to teach these kinds of thing. In my case, I had two teachers and they never try to teach us how to read or write, but they just asked us if we wanted to take homework with us or not. As most of the children I wanted to play instead of taking homework with me and my mom decided to teach me by herself how to read and write. So now I can definitely say that is really important that the parents help their children to learn these two really important things for their future.
Mehdi Perrinjaquet
I think that it is important to remember that every child develops at different pace. For some children mastering literacy skills will come naturally other will need a little bit of help. However, in my opinion as children at a young age are like a sponge and generally absorb various skills easily providing them with appropriate conditions and encouraging to read would be to their benefit.
Regards,
Anna Ostrowska
I really like this article but I have one clear view point on it. I believe that children should be taught how to read and write at an earlier age. This is a key time in the development of a childs mind; their brains are like a sponge and any information that is given to them at this age will last. They will be able to keep it in the back of their head and metacognise on it in future times. I do not think we are depriving our children at the minute by not teaching them Literacy at an earlier age but I do not see what would be wrong with doing so; surely it can only be an aid to the childs education and not a hindrance. I am all for the new education system in the united kingdom with its’ revised curriculum now fully in place. The emphasis is on play in the early years sector but I do feel that some of the basic Literacy skills are left out and we need to sustain these skills at an early age for children to develop even more. There are too many people out there who can not read or write. To me 100 people in the world who can not read or write is still too many. I feel that if a child is able to read and write at an early age then we as teachers should offer and guide them to do so.
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Kealan Watters
To me the idea looks promising. The earlier we start to teach children how to read and write, the easier they will comprehend the surrounding world represented in the books and reality. In this way, children of tender years can develop effectively lots of other skills and above all imagination. There is no point in perceiving reading as an early-school obligation. It should be shown as a pleasure, an alternative key to a multitude of curious questions that, without doubts, lots of kids have.
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Magdalena Murzyn
In my opinion, it depends on the child´s personality when he or she starts learning how to read and to write.
Education starts when people are born. It continues lifelong. It is better for everybody to start early. And I think it must be compulsory for every country. It is important improvement to develop in every subject. We have to care about pressschool too much. They have to be open for everything and not try to make their child someone they want to it to become.As the text says the important point here is to adapt the true usage of the language to children’s life for the help of socialization.
Best regards, Ema Lingyte
In my opinion, teaching children to read earlier than at the age of six or seven is too soon. Parents and teachers of preschool can make a good start for the reading-writing process with different kinds of games and other activities before primary school, but the actual teaching should not start until the first grade. Before that learning to recognize the letters is enough.
Some children learn to read on their own, before they start school and in every first grade there are students who already know how to read and write, when others are just starting to learn. It is a fact that every first grade teacher has to accept and take in notice in his teaching. First grade of primary school is the place, where teacher has to be really innovative and know how to use differentiation in his teaching. It is essential that none of the students get bored or on the other hand feel too much pressure of learning.
Best regards, Anna-Maria Ronkainen
In my opinion there is nothing wrong with teaching children how to read at the age of 3 years. It is not, after all, about that they read and understand any 300 pages novel right now.
The idea is to familiarize them with letters, with simple words, so that later at the school it will be easier for them, for example other children won’t bother them. We know what are the children.
Therefore, I believe that parents should try to encourage young children to read, but not in the usual form, but in the form of various types of games. Yes, that should be pleasant to child, and also useful. It is also well known that this way children learn faster, so why not to use it? The same is true about foreign language learning.
In my opinion, as early as in a kindergarten children should start learning languages, because this will bring lots of benefits for them in the future.
Saludos,
Kira Kadlubiska
I agree that introducing reading and writing at a young age can be very beneficial for a child.
Gaining skills in literacy can be a difficult task for children but introducing these skills to children at the age of 3 allows them more time to develop these skills.
In the earlier years of a child’s life they are far more receptive to language and absorb it passively. As we get older this becomes a harder task.
We should take full advantage of a young child’s ability to adapt linguistic skills at a accelerated pace. Teaching a child to read and write at an early age will further increase the connections in the child’s mind between the sound of words and their written form. This will benefit the child’s linguistic competence in later life.
Regards,
Seán Kenehan.
From my point of view, it is essential to teach children read and write at early age. I think that age of 3 would be on average the best age to start this process witch higher intensity. For some one year earlier seems too difficult, for some too easy so probably the best option would be to measure somehow the capacity of the youngest for that kind of education and go through with the education accordingly.
Furthermore, I rather agree with progressive view on people’s education and its result in the future. It seems that if a child is given proper stimulation at very young age it can achieve good results later.
Another issue, is the case of education in general, it does not only take place in classrooms. That is the reason why we should give every child a mean to educate by themselves and that is when literacy plays a grand role.
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Tomasz Iwan
The question of the age at which children should (or can) start reading and writing is complicated. I don’t have the skills to answer to this question, so I’m just going to give my opinion.
I think that maybe 3 years old is too early to start. At this age, most children are not mature enough and don’t have for the moment the abilities. But it’s true that it depends of every child. Some children are interested to try to read a book for example before 6 years old. On the other hand,maybe it could be a good thing to lead children on the way of writing and reading before of 6 years old, to arouse their curiosity for example. It’s normal that the methods of education evolve with time, so why not teach to the children a little before 6 years old. For example about the learning of foreign languages, this process begins earlier and earlier ( nannies who speaks English to the children, …) So maybe the teaching of reading and writing can start before 6 years, but not before the child gets ready, which is complicated to assess.
Best regards,
Morgane HAMZA.
This subject is very important.I think all the students’ reading and writing ability is different.I mean that there are individuality.
I think the families must:
*Teach the sounds of letters together with their names.
*Teach lower case letters first.
*Teach their childeren writing along with reading.
And I invite to you,watching this video.This video is about learning reading.I think is good method.
http://www.dalealplay.com/informaciondecontenido.php?con=304108
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Ayse Çiftçi
I feel that the age of three is far too early to try to teach a child to read. All children grow at completely different rates and I think that kind of decision should depend on the stage the child is at and should not be set at a certain age. Personally I think a child should only begin their reading and writing when they go to school at the age of four or five. Here they will be more motivated to learn as they will be among their peers and there will be less pressure as it will be more of a group activity.
Thank You,
Caroline Mc Rory
I see no reason to try purposefully teach children under 6 to read if they are not learning by themselves and “by accident”. It is a biological truth that in early years they are not mature enough to learn reading and writing skills, and they don´t even have to. Why should we hurry with our children´s growth and development, if he/she anyway is likely to learn at school. And if a child has got interested in books early and the parents have been eager to speed up their child´s ability to read, the teacher should be the one who adapts her teaching program to the children´s level.
The children always have learned with a surprising speed, and they are able to use what they learned as if they had years practicing it. The sooner the better. The children are an empty hard disk, and are to acquire as much information as possible. The challenge is going to be about how we can teach in the correct way.
The problem is in what we need to teach. The children do not know about what is good and what is bad. Sometime the children can acquire bad behaviors that cannot be corrects. Also there are a lot of factors as poverty that always affect children education.
The skills of a child should be developed as soon as possible. It is amazing that a three years old child can speak English, Spanish, knows the basis Portuguese and also he can read, isn’t? I had liked to be in that environment.
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Andres Jauregui
@Elite_Astaroth
Personally I think that attempting to teach a child to read at the age of three is inappropriate however encouraging a child to read at this age is suitable. Every child develops at a different pace and while it would put them at an advantage to be able to read at such a young age it is not essential. The age of three is not a time to bombard children with knowledge that they are not capable or willing to intake, some at the age of three still struggle to understand the basic concept of what reading actually is! However I believe that if a child shows an interest in learning to read at this stage it should be encouraged and supported. I do feel that by the age of five or six the majority of children are mentally ready to begin the process of learning to read and so forcing the matter is appropriate however at any stage before this it is not necessary.
Regards,
Shona McCarthy.
I think children should learn to read whenever they want, but not too late. It’s true that the younger they begin to read the more advantages they may enjoy. But if they’re obliged to read prematurely they might end hating it. Here lies the importance of a personalized education, where kids’ abilities are encouraged at their very own time. I think the point should be that kids like reading, and that they develop a critical sense of what they read rather than to decrease the age at which they begin doing it.
Best regards,
Daniel Abreu
I agree educating is not an easy task and so this is why I feel strongly that teachers and educators need to be patient, strong minded and determined. These qualities in my opinion are important when it comes to teaching a topic to students or even early on in a childs life teaching them to read and write. There is no doubt that every child develops at differnt times, so who is to say that every child is ready mentally at the age of three to begin reading? yes some are ready but most often than none they are not ready. I feel that pre-school is the best opition for children to casually learn to read and get to know the basics and then go on to primary school. Children must have time to enjoy education, it shud not be thrown at them at such a young age when they are not mentally capable.
Regards,
Sarah Geasley
I believe that when a child learns to read early it will have advantages when starting school and it will learn faster and easier because it can already read. I myself learned to read when I was four, and when starting school I had clear advantages over those children who could not read at all, and to this day I love reading. However, there are parents who force their children to learn to read early, and this can do that the child comes to associate reading with something obligatory, and therefore something boring. So children should learn to read early, but should not be pressured into doing it. It should be made something fun and encouraging so that the child wants to learn.
Regards,
Ingeborg Anna Bakken
I think the important thing to remember is each child develops at different rates and have different abilities in reading and writing. Some children may also express an interest in reading and writing younger and others may not. I feel it is important not to pressure children at such a young age as this could form negative attitudes towards reading and writing and if they seem eager to read and write early, then encourage this.
Hannah
Learning to read and write has always been associated with our early years of primary school.Learning children to read at the age of three becomes more of a task for us. Yes children are well capable to read and write at the age of three however are they mature enough? I think not. From my experience working in a school, a girl at only three years old was miles ahead of the class in terms of reading and writing however her maturity levels lacked behind everyone else. She struggled with socializing and was not well prepared for primary school.
However preparing children in pre-school with reading and writing may help them become advance readers in a shorter time plan. However are they not suppose to enjoy their pre-school years? Piling reading and writing on them takes the fun from their pre-school classroom.
This article cause a lot of discussions, when children should learn read and write. I think so that to start child teach too early isn’t very good idea, because, children should be children and enjoy a childhood. I agree that before school parents can teach some main things how to knew letters, or read and write some not difficult words. and I don’t like idea when parents let child to school too early about 4 and 5 years. I think in this age they can’t decide what they want, and also, it is too big pressure from parents. I think that children can learn read and write about 6, 6,5 years, before school, when they knew some things but not too much, they can fell better in the school at the first days and months. I think if child learn a lot of things so early they can be confused, and have hard adaptation in the world.
Kind regards,
Viktorija Songailaitė
From fourth to sixth in books enrich the emotional, imaginative and intellectual world of children, have fun and learn it. Reading or telling a good night is no substitute for an audio-or videotape, but can sometimes alleviate the absence of parents. Fairy Tale for a good night is an opportunity to get closer to children and time to calm before bedtime, it would not be missed. Some children are interested in letters and numbers, and automatically begin to imitate reading and writing. So to Promote the ‘oral writing’ to tell us their stories. Would be valuable if you parents or teachers writing down (in writing or on audio-or videotape) children stories, songs, stories. Zbirajmo children’s illustration, to write or plot your book and the record of his comments in his books and drawings. Mandatory child datirajmo products and should preferably be signed. In addition to fairy tales to children read poetry to rhythm and rhyme, they are bound to develop a sense of the word that the child itself spontaneously generates. Encourage children to learn rhymes and songs by heart, to follow the reading with a finger when we read aloud together. Choosing the book with humor and Let us not only in the evening, but whenever an opportunity offers. Serve your child a chance to choose a book that he is, buy the book with him, “Let’s talk about books, to settle in the book corner and view prelista book.
Best regards, Darjan
I think that kids should learn how to write and read as early as it’s possible at home. In my opinion if parents start this job(teaching them kids how to write and read) children will heve better start when they will go to school bacause they during the calass they will remind that they saw it before - at home - and it will be easier for them.
There is a big discussion regarding when children should be introduced to reading. One side advocates the opinion to wait until children are 5 or 6 years old. The main reason is supposed to be if the children learn to read at an early age, they will be bored at school and prepresent a distraction for other children.
The other side support a different opinion. They believe the childs mind is like a spoonge. The more information you feed them, the more they learn. It’s Importatnt to start reading at the age of 3 with age appropriate books, or through an educational game. This is supposed to be a foundation for the future.
Regards, Maša Benedičič
i think that with every new generation children learn how to manadge things faster and their development also is faster. learning to read and writte at earlyer age is just an advantige, but every child is different and the potentials are not the same. parents should recognize the potential of their child and make a decision when to start educating not forcing them something they are not able to manadge yet.
matiss elmis
In my opinion, it depends on the child´s personality when he or she starts learning how to read and to write.
Fundamental, I think it is not usefull to face children at the age of 3,4 or 5 with reading or writing lessons. Isn´t it enough to learn reading at the age of 6? I could not imagine that every child wants to learn it earlier, maybe they are not ready for learning to write or to read.
I think it is more important for them to enjoy themselves, their families and to make new friends. At the age of 3, they discover their environment and they learn to know how to behave in the community. I think thats more essencial than learning howto read.
Best regards,
Franziska Schriewer
I think this is a very interesting article. In my country, children’s education begins at age six. Was carried out while a lot of discussion in order to send his children to primary school at age 6. In my opinion, this is not true because the children lose their childhood, very early. Each of us has a specific time to learn reading and writing. But I believe they are the children who have talent and they learn faster and will have an enormous impact on the future of the country.
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Katarzyna Bialas
I don´t think, that children should learn reading too early. I know, that the trend at the moment is to teach children all sorts of things, for example foreign languages the earlier the better, but I certainly don´t agree with this.
I think children should have time to be children and play and not be under the pressure of learning and studying before they even go to school.
Most people, like myself, have learned reading when they started going to school and I´m sure, that they all can read just fine, so I don´t see the necessity to start teaching children how to read so early.
Kind regards Maren Henschel
Because learning our language it’s role of primary socialization, the parents are the most important part of it.
The child’s literacy doesn’t begin at time, when child knows alphabet and he can write first letters, but much before. When we hear him how he draws and at the same time talks about story, this is one of the first steps in the world of reading and writing.
Not school, but parents have the most important role in his literacy. This doesn’t mean that we must learn child writing like in a school, but it’s desirable encourage him through different games. More that we will read him, more that we’ll play with him for shops, offices, schools,…more interest he will show for reading.
I think that school must learn how to read in early years, but through games and plays, because knowing our own language is one of most important things in our lives.
Best regards,
Tina Čampa
I think when a child starts to read is individual:
One child is maybe interested in words and wants to learn to read and ask the mother:”what means that word”, another child is maybe not interested and has to pass other exercises of development.
I think parents or teacher should adapt to the individual learning process of different children:
If the child is interested, the parents could show some easy letters and words, if the child is not interested, the parents should accept this.
In my opinion it is very important, that the child is not under pressure. Children under 6 have to learn and cope a lot of things and maybe they are not ready, that s why I think, that sometimes it s problematic to teach them reading.
Maybe it s too much for them. So if the child wants to, they can be teached a little bit, but they should have fun!!
Kind regards
Lisa Kaltenbrunner
Experts have different opinions about when learning children how to read. I think that children are curious by their nature and the adults’ role is to stimulate them by carrying out an activity. I think a very successful and spontaneous way of learning a child to read is reading fairy tales with him/her. Thus, in a very playful way a child is subconsciously expanding the vocabulary. I disagree with forcing a child to such activities as reading. The best is to introduce the new area of knowledge through the game and allow him/her to express his/her wishes. We should always let children to be children.
Eva Verdev
Psychologists advise, not to teach children to read, if they are not interested in reading. - The truth is that for the first six years, first of all, the child develops physically, and it is the physical stimulation that effects on intellectual development.
I think that a sufficient start in learning to read is the method in the nursery school. Where five-year old children explore letters and six-year olds are learning them compulsory. Science involves the matching of letters with a simple and well-known expression for the child, such as “m” like mom, “b” like a balloon, “c ” like car, etc. Children play coming up with words that begin with the different letters. Before children begin to read the syllables, they are first spelling the different words, such as their names. The next step is to read simple words that are disyllabic.
Regards,
Beata Klimek.
Every child is different. Some want to learn to read and write when they are 3 years old and some of them, when they go to school. In my opinion, we should let the child decide what he or she want. If reading is for them, let them read and learn how to write but we shouldn’t force them to do anything if they don’t want to.
In my experience, when parents force they children to read before they go to school, that they will know it and will do better, the actual result was quite the opposite. Children were thought wrong, they didn’t know how to read as the teacher thought them, so in reality they did much worse as the children that at first couldn’t read.
In conclusion, we should let the children play and when they show the interest to learn, help them in a way that should be the best for them. They need at their early age, their play time so they don’t feel obligated and under pressure entering school,a completely different, educational period of their life.
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Kristina Janez
When should a child learn to read and write is very individual. It depends on the talents of individuals. Still, I think that a child before 5. year shouldn’t ask to request reading or writing, if alone doesn’t show any interest. Since children at this age haven’t acquirement all the meanings of words and therefore they didn’t understand the meaning of reading or writing some words or letters and they wouldn’t be motivated to develop the literacy skills.
Best regards,
Lenka Wojtalová
Children enter the school at a different stage of their psychological development, have different talents, different temperament, different tendencies and preferences like individual human beings.
Child psychologists are generally protective of children in the late development, with below-average intelligence and its individual components unevenly developed. I believe that it is very difficult to learn how to read and write before the sixth year to children which are not mentally mature for it. Lot of kids have some problems with read and write for long time during their primary school attendance.
The second point are exceptionally gifted children which often enter school with reading and counting skills. In our country (Czech Republic), there are about 2-4% of children entering school with this knowledge. It’s either by their own merit, or due to their parents. It could not happen to great advantage but also a disadvantage thanks to the standards and curriculum, children could get bored in classes and distracted other classmates.
So we are now face to problem how to erase the difference between gifted children and children who have problems and how to cooperate with their self-development at their own tempo?
regards,
Lukas Rafaj
My opinion is that, I see no reason why children should not start reading before, but it should not be forced. Access now our children learn to read because it seems smart is not correct. Parents should let children develop their skills according to how the child is offered to offset the situation and not according to how they think it’s best for them. Anyway, should not force a child to read while you still can not speak properly. More important than age when a child learns to read is that they learn to read properly because the books have always been important to the overall intellectual human development.
Regards Roman Válek
My opinion is that, I see no reason why children should not start reading before, but it should not be forced. Access now our children learn to read because it seems smart is not correct. Parents should let children develop their skills according to how the child is offered to offset the situation and not according to how they think it’s best for them. Anyway, should not force a child to read while you still can not speak properly. More important than age when a child learns to read is that they learn to read properly because the books have always been important to the overall intellectual human development.
I also can’t find a reason why don’t teach children to read or write in early age. But I think that this decision is on parents. In my opinion It’s not really necessary to teach it earlier by institution way. Parents should recognize abilities of their children and base on this fact they should try to teach their children to read (write) in ages they find best. Children which have some experiences with reading or writing, have just advantage when they start to attend school. In my opinion the idea, that those children will be bored in classes is unfounded.
Ondřej Mikerásek
In my way of thinking childrens dont care about education because dosent realized what is very important in life they just living single day and dont care about future and education as well ofcourse sometimes maybe 1 children on 100 has special skills and growing up faster then other children … its up to parents what they will do with it they can improving children skills or if they wont watching children might lost this oportunity ofcourse it is individual i can give it’s all individual matter how children is developing , for example .. the youngest drummer ( he was 4 yr old ) in world came from Poland .. he has a talent and rythm but i think he needs only general education ofcourse parents would forced him to play on drums bu it worked out very nice ( how to read ,write , etc)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ0eod3vVcs&feature=related
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Bartosz Grabowiec ( POLAND)
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I think learning reading at the age 3 or 4 is good for children, but the most important thing is that they learn it trough play. We shouldn’t be talking about how we should teach a child how to read when he is 3 years old, we should be talking about how we are preparing the enviroment in which he can be able to learn how te read and teach. If a child plays he can learn much more without even noticing that he is learning. And if we just prepare the enviroment, that means that not all the children have to learn, because every child is an individual and has his own time in which he can learn the most. So in my opinion learning how to read is good only in case if it is done while playing, because otherwise the kindergarten schoolarised. While I was doing my practice in the kindergarten here in Spain I have seen how the work goes here. I have to say, that I didn’t like too much because kindergarten for me was the same as primary school in our country. Children at age 3 are sitting almost all the morning and yes, they are learning. And in this case I think here in Spain they are approaching this question in a wrong way, because I almost haven’t seen children play - at age 3? And just because they don’t have time, because they have to learn and do so many things. So learning how to read is good but only if we approach it in the right way … uf corse this is only my opinion.
Best regards, Manca Sever
On what time you start educating your child totally depends on the child’s personality. I think it is very important to live life in a chronological order. That means: don’t rush things and take the time for the different fases. If you skip or rush a fase it might have a negative effect in the following one, because the child is missing something. For example: the child already knows how to read, but is not able to make friends in class. Here the child doesn’t have enough social skills, so is in the end not able to skip a class or fase. How long these fases take depends on the child. Some kids are growing up quicky while others need some more time. Parents shouldn’t forse their children to anything, but forsing is something else than stimulating. Some children start on their own with reading and others need to get the book reached. So my conclusion is that as a parent you can stimulate your child a little in the right direction, but don’t cross the line to forsing.
Kind regards,
Louise van der Meer
I think ever child is different, so ever child has different interests. This means some children get interested in learning or reading on a young age, well others just want to play outside.
I think the parents task overall is to notice this( the interests of the child) and try to motivate or help there child when needed. Anyway it should never been forced by parents on such young age.
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Mark Suurland
I am going to be a teacher and during our teacher-training I have realised that it is very important to just let the pupil be and develop in the speed that’s normal for that pupil. If it means reading in the age of 2 years or 6 years doesn’t matter, that’s individual!
And I dont believe in training children in early age to start reading, if it doesnt come naturally.
Let the children be children, because they grow so fast!
I really can’t think of a reason why not to teach children to read and write in early age - if done with consideration to child’s individuality and age. Argument that child will be bored in school as a consequence of already knowing to read and write is ludicrous. However I have not seen any evidence either way so I will have to reserve judgement.
Regards, Martin Ferfecky
The child devolpes individually and start to practice diffirent things in different periodes. Thats the same with learning reading. There should be no age line to start to teach the kid to read. Children always have and show different intrests and that should the parents follow.
They have to be open for everything and not try to make their child someone they want to it to become.
Of course they should keep an eye for the childs development, if we take reading as an example. Reading for child is very important and necessary.
Regards Daniela
Children learn many early social skills and manners as well as grace are reinforced in a preschool environment. It is often the first environment where they realize that they are not the center of the universe and it is easier for strangers to teach this, than it is for parents. They will begin to learn sharing, taking turns, following directions and will gain a sense of pride in their independence. If your preschool has a curriculum, you will find that they will quickly and easily learn things like their letters, numbers and other cognizant learning skills. While they will also learn this at home, often the preschool environment is more organized and clearly stipulates learning guidelines that are age appropriate.
It is important to start early to read for children. Education starts when people are born. It continues lifelong. It is better for everybody to start early. And I think it must be compulsory for every country. It is important improvement to develop in every subject. We have to care about pressschool too much.
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Merve Atas
Children learn many early social skills and manners as well as grace are reinforced in a preschool environment. It is often the first environment where they realize that they are not the center of the universe and it is easier for strangers to teach this, than it is for parents. They will begin to learn sharing, taking turns, following directions and will gain a sense of pride in their independence. If your preschool has a curriculum, you will find that they will quickly and easily learn things like their letters, numbers and other cognizant learning skills. While they will also learn this at home, often the preschool environment is more organized and clearly stipulates learning guidelines that are age appropriate.
It is important to start early to read for children. Education starts when people are born. It continues lifelong. It is better for everybody to start early. And I think it must be compulsory for every country. It is important improvement to develop in every subject. We have to care about pressschool too much.
Regards
Merve Atas
I think 4 years old is a great time to start children in preschool. It seems that parents want their children to start so early, at 1 and 2. 1 and 2 years old so that their child has a jump start on learning. That is great, however, children are not developmentally ready then. By 4 years old, children are beginning to form their own identity and are ready to go to a school environment away from mom and dad. Even at 4-years, some children struggle but at that age, children are ready and eager to start preschool. Before the age of four, I think parents should enroll their children in play groups so they have the opportunity to interact with children. Most children learn to read by 6 or 7 years of age. Some children learn at 4 or 5 years of age. Even if a child has a head start, she may not stay ahead once school starts. The other students most likely will catch up during the second or third grade.
• From birth to age three, children listen to lots of words spoken and learn how to talk.
• Children, aged three to four years old have growing vocabularies, and they learn how to rhyme.
• In first grade children are taught how to blend letter sounds together to “sound out” words and memorize sight words. They begin reading simple sentences.
• Second and third graders learn how to read “chapter” books and read fluently with comprehension.
For children it is easier to learn at young ages than later. This statement is correct but to push them to learn reading or writing is not the right way. For example the Government shouldn’t change the educational system to force the children to lear more when they are young. Because as some of the writers before me told: Children need their childhood, to play, make some first friends and get social contacts. But if they are interested in learning at an early age they can be supported by their parents. This depends on each child because they are all different and not all are ready to read a text with 3 years. Of course when they can it is an advantage for them and the first years in school might be easier for them, but we have to consider the needs and ablities of the less talented. So it would be good to support the ones who want to read but don’t change the general system in order to give the children the chance to be child.
Best regards, Tina Lechner
I agree with the article, however we have to highlight the fact, that the whole question is depend on every single child. I do not believe in forcing the children to start to write and read before school (child needs to have a real childhood) – however some children have the couriosity to learn the letters even they are three or four years old and others have different interests and they are not intrested in the world of letters. So, let the child decide, what he or she wants – they will learn writing and reading in the school anyway and if they can read, the teacher should help them not to bored in the classroom.
Zoltan Huber
: Many parents believe that their children’s learning to read at an early age than others that will be successful individuals in the future.In my opinion ,children shouldn’t start with reading and writing within three or four years because he/she who is the future than friends can get bored from courses.For example , some families teach writing and reading to their children.I think it is wrong behaviour, but the families should teach letters, numbers etc…So the children haven’t difficulty in lessons and they understand them more easily.
Fatma Apalı
Best regards
Based on the different kind of reactions based on this article, I think as follow.
It is already proofed that a average child learn fast on there early age. Of course there also different kind factors that a child is not be able to learn fast.
If you see for example, that there already huge kind of differences levels in the first years of a class. Why should we not start earlier with teaching the children reading and writting?
The benefits are that a child is faster to be able to read and to write. But at the other hand there are also chidlren who are not be able to read and write so fast.
So to cither the people above, I think based on each child the parent can choose if they want that there child starts on a early age with teaching them reading and or writting.
Kind regards,
Arjen Trouwborst
Teaching reading and writing early is advantegous or not.I think it is because it is a fact that children can absorb the information about anything fast especially in early ages.
Even we can say that they are like sponges, ready to absorb all the water around it.And I don’t believe that the children who have learned reading and writing at early ages can get bored in the environmet of the class while their friends are still at the level of learning, beginners.Of course, teachers will understand this difference and give the tasks these students by taking into consideration their background.As the text says the important point here is to adapt the true usage of the language to children’s life for the help of socialization.
Regards, Elif Cavdar
It is good to exploit children’s potential in their early age when they are able to take and renember many social needs and basic skills and abillities.Of course it depends at individual psychologic age of children. Someones are ready to go to school when they are 4 and someones need more time. Good way how to help delayed children is make education in forms of games.
Vít Gruner
I think that it is better for children to learn reading as earlier as possible. I do not believe that they will be bored later, during the primary school because they will learn new things or the same things starting with letters and numbers, but in a different manner. The art of teaching is not the same in kindergarten with the teaching practiced in school. If children are bored in school, in general, it is not because they have learnt the same lessons before; it is because their teacher does not know how to make his or her lessons more attractive for them.
I think it is not also difficult for children to learn the reading and writing (simple words and very simple sentences) during their preschool education. I know many situations when it happened like this (so it is possible) and they really enjoyed their primary education because they were the best and could give the answers to their teacher in the primary school faster than the others. They can be “used” like “little teachers” for their colleagues and they will not be bored anymore; they will really like this and will feel themselves more important in the class.
Games are also solutions in this respect. Simple puzzles with words or simple scrabbles can be used to teach them simple words, too. The images and photos with big letters or on which big words are written can be useful as well. As a matter of fact, I think that games are very important in school all the time, no matter the age of the pupil or even student.
There should also be all the time ‘a generation of sacrifice’, meaning that we can try to apply a system when children learn how to read and write at an earlier age, and the results will help us to better understand if this is a good thing for children and community as well. The system and society can be improved with the results that will be obtained.
I also believe that even if the Parliament or other authority will decide that they should learn how to read or write at 2, 3 or 5, 6 years, this authority should never forget that no matter the age they have, they are still children and the schools and teachers should be endowed with materials and the capacity to make them understand what they write and read and how to read and write in a correct and very easy way.
Grzegorz Stępień
In my opinion we shouldn’t give the age line when we has to start teach our kids to read. Because we joust has to be sure our child is ready to begin learning how to read. If our child shows interest in learning letters and looking through books, he may be ready to begin learning to read. Learning how to read cannot be rushed. If we try to teach a child prematurely, I think we will both wind up frustrated. If our child has no interest whatsoever in learning his letters, then we has towait a month or so and try again. Some children are ready to begin learning their letters as young as 2 years old, while others are not ready until they are 4 or 5 years old. In my opinion we just has to follow our child’s lead on when our child is ready to begin reading.
Best regards Urška Judež
Estoy totalmente de acuerdo con el aprendizaje de lecto - escritura a edades tempranas; un niño contra más pequeño sea, más capacidades de absorción de la información poseen, por lo que les resultaria menos dificil este aprendizaje a los tres años que a los seis.
Aquel niño que a los tres años ya sabe leer y escribir tiene una mayor independencia y a lo largo de los años desarrollará mayor capacidad de comprensión.
Con lo que no estoy totalmente conforme es con que haya que poner una edad establecida para inculcarle este tipo de aprendizaje,ya que el desarrollo de cada niño es diferente (unos desarrollan una capacidades antes que otros).
Con respecto al aburrimiento de los alumnos en el aula; creoque depende de la manera que tenga el profesor de impartir sus clases, si un profesor busca maneras divertidas de enseñar, dinámicas, clases amenas y participativas y un medio adecuado dónde impartir sus clases,encontrará un ambiente en sus alumnos, divertido,participativo,activo y con ganas de seguir absorviendo más informción.
Laura Rubio
Yo creo que lo mejor es aprender cuanto antes, porque ya a esa edad (sobre los tres años), los niños hablan, entienden lo que se les dice sin problemas…; y no solo a los tres, sino antes también, eso según algunos, según sus características individuales, pues hay quienes empiezan a decir las primeras palabras al primer año largo y otros que no dicen ni “pio” hasta los dos y medio (como es mi caso). Lo que intento decir es que lo mejor es enseñarles una serie de reglas, unas pautas… en su edad preescolar, como las letras o diferentes conceptos…no sé, quizás como un espacio preparatorio para la primaria y no solo sea esos años, en los que estan en la guardería, un tiempo de juegos.
Desde mi punto de vista, el equipo docente que trabaja en guarderías son las niñeras que cuidan de los infantes cuando sus madres y padres estan trabajando, porque creo que lo mismo hacen en ese lugar que en casa de la abuela. Por eso mismo digo que para aprovechar ese tiempo, intentar que aprendan algo de provecho antes de entrar en la escuela, sin presión claro está, puesto que son pequeños y no siempre están dispuestos a escuchar explicaciones de nadie; y si es mucho pedir, pues que se preparen para ir al colegio (tanto en la guardería como en casa) el año previo a entrar en la escuela obligatoria.
Desde mi punto de vista esta temática que estamos discutiendo no es ninguna novedad. Agradezco que tenga a mi alcance información sobre un tema que dejé de lado hace muchos. Curiosamente llevo muchos años discutiendo con mis padres sobre la edad en la que aprendí a leer. Ellos siempre me han comentado que con 3 años ya sabía leer todas las canciones de un librito infantil( Me hubiera gustado comentarte este tema en clase cuando lo debatimos, pero creí que no era el momento apropiado, y preferí escuchar con atención, ya que es un tema que despertó mucha curiosidad en mí) Yo siempre les he llevado la contraria porqué nuca había encontrado una explicación lógica ni me había imaginado que era posible a una edad tan temprana, pero ahora es cuando me he dado cuenta y me visto en la obligación de rectificar y pedirles una disculpa por el desconocimiento que tenía sobre este tema. Ahora entiendo el impacto que eso tuvo en mi temprana edad, la motivación individual que me llevó a sentir esa pasión por la lectura y eso floreció en mi gracias a la oportunidad que me otorgaron mis padres de motivarme desde muy pequeña en la lectura. Yo creo que es imprescindible aprender a leer cuánto antes mejor, pero no creo que la educación escolar sea la apropiada para inculcar este aprendizaje a un grupo de alumnos con 3 año en una aula. Yo creo que esta decisión está en manos de los padres. Ya que ellos son los que tienen a su alcanze la oportunidad de decidir y ayudar a sus hijos en este proceso, sobretodo si creen en el gran impacto que puede tener este hecho en su dearrollo intelectual. Si somos capaces de aprender algo tan importante como es la lectura a una edad tan temprana..porqué esperar?
En mi opinión, alfabetizar no es una tarea nada fácil.
Considero que en el momento en el que el niño esté preparado para afrontar dicha tarea, ya sea a los dos años, a los cuatro o a los seis, es el momento perfecto para comenzar con el aprendizaje de la lectoescritura.
Por último, decir que estoy totalmente de acuerdo con la idea de que lo mejor es iniciar la alfabetización en el periodo preescolar, para así llegar ya con ciertos conocimientos a primaria.
LUCÍA OSUNA ROSAS
Pienso que la educación y aprendizaje desde más pequeño mejor. ¿Porque basarnos en la época de preescolar a entretener a los niños con simples juguetes y plastilina, pudiendo aparte de esto último, empezar a inculcarle valores como son tan importantes y necesarios, el de la escritura y lectura? Creo que contra mas pequeños, el celebro humano es mas habilidoso a la ora de aprender y adquirir nuevos conocimientos y que mejor que esta etapa para darle comienzo a través por ejemplo del juego, a las letras. Dibujarlas, recortarla, cantarlas…un sin fin de formas no muy estrictas para esa edad, pero que hacen que el niño se vaya familiarizando con unos aspectos que en un futuro no muy lejano les serán imprescindible. Porque ¿quién de nosotros, haciendo un poco de memoria hacia el pasado, no a tenido un compañero o compañera, en unos cursos ya elevados de primaria, que no haya tenido dificultades a la ora de leer un texto en alto? porque dejar que esos hechos pasen, pudiendo mejorar la calidad de educación en nuestro país. Yo lo que digo en definitiva que el “saber no ocupa lugar”…y contra antes mejor.
El proceso de aprendizaje por parte de los niños desde una edad temprana quedará permanente y vivo a lo largo de sus vidas. Pienso que un niño puede empezar a aprender cuando ya adquiere una serie de conocimientos y sabe diferenciar unas cosas de otras. Cuanto más temprano un niño empieza a leer será más fácil de resolver sus problemas por sí solos, es decir, y tendrán la capacidad de desenvolverse en la vida social propia, y de esta forma se irán haciendo más independiente. Algunos piensan que los si los niños empiezan a leer antes de los 6 años se aburrirían en clase, pues esta idea es falsa porque los profesores ofrecerían unas técnicas de enseñanza relacionadas con el juego y el entreteninimiento. También es útil la ayuda de los padres ya que sin ellos no se llevaría a cabo esta idea porque son ellos mismos los que le suben el autoestima en el aprendizaje a sus hijos, y además colaboran con los profesores para que el proceso sea lo más ameno posible. Igual que defiendo la idea de que los niños deberían aprender a antes de los seis años,también la contradico ya que todo niño no está capacitado de adquirir conocimientos en una edad muy temprana, y algunos se desarrollan intelectualmente antes que otros.
“El saber no ocupa lugar”. Como bien has citado, hay estudios, donde se prueba que un niño con un año, es capaza de reconocer letras y que a los tres, puede leer un libro adaptado a su edad. ¿Quién somos nosotros para ir contra natura? a nosotros me quiero referia a maestros, profesores, educadores, y de ahi para arriba, los que crean el curriculo, los programas escolares, las leyes, etcétera.
El aprendizaje no se puede ir graduando. Y si a los tres años se está capacitado para aprender, bueno está que se haga. El aprender está en nosotros, en nuestro instinto, y nos da libertad. No se debe cuadricular las mentes, porque sino acabaremos todos en el mismo redil.
Bajo mi punto de vista me parece fenomenal que a los niños se le aprendan a leer y escribir en una edad temprana, ya que asi le sera mucho mas facil desenvolverse en su vida social y llegar a ser independiente mucho antes.
Pienso que a esa edad es mucho mas facil ya que la agilidad mental del niño es mucho mas amplia , ya que todo lo que oye, ven y escucha lo repiten continuamemte puesto que todo eso es nuevo para ellos.
Creo que se le deberia aprender a traves de algun tipo de dinamica la cual sea un “juego” para ellos, para que asi nose le haga pesado y que no se aburran a la misma vez que estan aprendiendo.
Antiguamente las madres se quedaban con los niños y cuando tenían una cierta edad lo llevaban a la escuela. Pero cuando los dos padres empezaron a trabajar, metieron a los niños en guarderías antes, y esto hizo que los niños de las guarderías adquirieran unan serie de habilidades que los otros niños adquirían mas tarde.
Por lo que en mi opinión me parece correcto y adecuado que los niños adquieran el conocimiento de leer antes, para así tener un mayor desarrollo en un futuro. Pero eso sí, que nunca se nos olvide que son niños.
Parece ser que la conveniencia o no de la adquisión de la lectura en la etapa de educación infantil va por modas según el sistema educativo vigente.Personalmente, y de forma general, pienso que un niño debe iniciar el proceso de la lectura cuando su madurez se lo permita, es decir, tenga adquiridos los prerrequisitos necesarios para ello tales como las habilidades mentales de atención, percepción, memoria, asimilación del esquema corporal, de la estructuración espacio-temporal y de los conceptos básicos. Tras haber consultado a profesorado especializado en educación infantil, sé que existen casos en la escuela donde el aprendizaje de la lectura ha sido una experiencia negativa para determinados alumnos por no haber tenido en cuenta la madurez de sus capacidades.
Sin embargo, y dentro de la diversidad, también hay niños muy receptivos que desde muy temprana edad son capaces de memorizar visualmente fonemas o palabras. Sea como fuere, este proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de la lectura puede ser realizado tanto en la escuela como en la familia. De hecho, existen ya editados métodos de lectura para bebés (Cómo enseñar a leer a tu hijo).
Ni que decir tiene que indepedentemente del momento en que se adquiera la lectura,la escuela debe fomentarla al máximo, ya que va a permitir que el alumno acceda a la información y a otros recursos para el aprendizaje de las demás áreas y materias.
Inmaculada García Serrano
Para empezar, tengo que decir que este artículo contiene un tema muy complejo, ya que, después de haber pedido ayda a distintas personas de mi alrededor, he llegado a la conclusión de que las opiniones sobre el tema son variadas.
A causa de ello, me voy a centrar en mi opinión personal. Pienso que la administración debería fijar edades más tempranas para enseñar a leer y adquirir conocimientos a los niños, ya que, con 20 meses e incluso antes, los niños se muestran muy receptivos para aprender cosas nuevas, y sobre todo si a educación se refiere.
También tengo que decir, que estos conocimientos tienen que contar principalmente con la participación de los padres, ya que, estos son los que comparten la mayor parte del tiempo de sus hijos, desde sus primeros días de vida.
he cogido como ejemplo a mi hermano, porque he tenido la suerte de observar directamente la rapidez que tenía de absorver con ta solo tres años el vocabulario básico del inglés.
Para terminar, aclarare que estoy de acuerdo con Glenn Doman, “el saber no ocupa lugar”. Se deben empezar a enseñar buenos hábitos y a adquirir conocimientos a nivel cultural y social desde edades tempranas.
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El debate por la edad idónea para comenzar la enseñanza de la lectura y escritura de los niños lo desconocía por completo, pues, desde mi punto de vista, no se ha puesto mucho empeño en ese tema.
Comparto mi opinión con el autor, diciendo que debemos de hacer caso del refrán: “el saber no ocupa lugar”.
Por lo que cuando un niño tiene capacidad de aprendizaje lo mejor es que se le comience a enseñar, estimulándolo y haciendo del aprendizaje algo ameno y entretenido.
Ya que, a menudo q pasa el tiempo, se hace más difícil aprender. Además, esto puede ocasionarnos problemas en el aprendizaje y desarrollo futuros.
Cada vez más expertos, según me he informado, afirman que los niños deberían empezar a aprender la base de la lecto-escritura, es decir, aprender sílabas, sonidos, letras,… a partir de los tres años, en lugar de esperar a primaria. Porque un aprendizaje temprano fomenta la habilidad para el estudio.
Los niños tienen capacidad y motivación. Además, son capaces de conocer que es una cosa por su símbolo o su marca, y esto está, de alguna manera, relacionado con la lectura.
Los niños que tienen un aprendizaje temprano de la lectura, tienen una mejor comprensión lectora, que es la base del lenguaje y, por tanto, tendrá buenos resultados en el resto de las cosas.
Muchos padres enseñan a sus hijos, antes de que aprendan en la escuela, las vocales e incluso la unión con las consonantes, y cuando estos niños entran en primaria ya tienen ese camino andado.
También hay otras personas que opinan que hay cosas que motivan a los niños a querer conocer las letras. Por ejemplo: Los tebeos( que motivan a saber qué es lo que se dice), las viñetas, etc. Por lo que, poner esto al alcance de los niños puede ser un buen recurso.
Leer es una de las funciones más elevadas del cerebro humano. Es además una de las funciones más importantes de la vida, dado que prácticamente todo aprendizaje se basa en la habilidad para leer.
Leer bien ha sido y será siempre garantía de éxito en los estudios y en la vida de cualquier persona. La lectura eficaz es la plataforma imprescindible en la que se apoya el éxito de las personas y una excelente vacuna contra el aburrimiento.
A menudo, existe la queja generalizada de maestros y profesores de que los estudiantes entienden poco de lo que leen.
Se cree que la introducción del método de lectura de Glenn Doman en edades tempranas favorecerá extraordinariamente la renovación de esta vital actividad pedagógica.
Sobre el método puedo añadir que:
Muchas veces se observa a los niños cuidadosamente, pero no siempre se comprende lo que significan sus acciones.
Un niño comienza a aprender justo después de nacer. Para cuando tiene seis años y empieza el aprendizaje de la lectura, ya ha absorbido una ingente cantidad de información, quizá más de la que aprenderá el resto de su vida. Con seis años ha aprendido la información básica sobre sí mismo y su familia, sus vecinos y sus relaciones con ellos, su mundo y su relación con él, y un sinfín más de hechos que son literalmente incontables. Y lo más significativo, habrá aprendido un idioma completo y a veces dos, tres o incluso más. El proceso de aprendizaje en los primeros años se origina a una velocidad increíble.
Un niño está aprendiendo constante y lógicamente. Está pendiente de todo con los cinco sentidos para aprender sobre el mundo que lo rodea. Ve, oye, siente, huele y saborea. No hay otra forma de aprender que a través de estas cinco rutas hacia el cerebro, y el niño las usa todas. Si utilizando su ruta visual ofrecemos al niño la posibilidad de visualizar palabras, eso sí, de gran tamaño, estará aprendiendo a leer, y con muy pocas repeticiones
(entre 10 y 15) reconocerá cada palabra aprendida, de la misma forma que cuando escucha una palabra la reproduce oralmente.
Los estímulos visuales son mucho más fácilmente retenidos pues son estables, pueden ser siempre de la misma calidad, se repiten de manera idéntica todas la veces que quieras y la vía visual no pierde la capacidad de procesarlos fielmente durante todos los años de escolaridad. En cambio los estímulos auditivos, como las palabras, son etéreos -la vibración se pierde en segundos, se mezclan con otros sonidos ambientales, son diferentes dependiendo de la persona que procedan, y a medida de que los niños se alejan de la infancia la percepción codificación y descodificación de nuevos fonemas disminuye.
Se dice que aprender a leer es tan fácil como aprender a hablar.
En los cuatro o cinco primeros años la habilidad para absorber información es inigualable y el deseo de hacerlo es mayor de lo que jamás será después.
Aprender también es el juego más fabuloso de la vida, y el más divertido.
Desde mi punto de vista me encuentro a favor de los motivos aquí expuestos pero también creo que además de enseñar a los niños a leer y a escribir desde temprana edad se debería de seguir potenciando durante todo el periodo escolar para así afianzar mayores conocimientos y llegando a establecer unos alumnos competentes dignos de encontrarse en el ciclo escolar que cursan. Esto podría realizarse a través de la lectura trimestral de libros elegidos por el alumno y que el profesor observe que realmente los han leído. Si esto se produjera así quizás solucionaríamos en mayor parte el analfabetismo.
También quisiera aportar una reseña en el punto de vista de enseñar a los niños desde pequeños a leer, ya que se les debería de ir dando unas pautas a seguir pero no obligarlos a llevar una lectura regular ya que es un periodo muy temprano para forzar a los pequeños a realizar máximos esfuerzos.
Alumno de la universidad de Huelva: Juan Carlos Márquez Reina.
Desde mi punto de vista creo que la lectura constituye un excelente recurso para el aprendizaje, de allí que inculcar el interés por ella en los niños desde pequeños, es una muy buena forma de contribuir a su crecimiento. Se les puede promover un interés que les perdurará durante toda la vida pues, la lectura, es una ventana abierta a nuevos mundos,a nuevas perspectivas, por lo tanto a una madurez intelectual.
La lectura eficaz es la plataforma imprescindible en la que se apoya el éxito de las personas y una excelente vacuna contra el aburrimiento.
Existe la queja generalizada de maestros y profesores de que los estudiantes entienden poco de lo que leen, lo que en muchos casos es evidente; pero esto suele provenir de un aprendizaje tardio y sobre todo aburrido.
Leer bien en los primeros años de escolarización condiciona de manera importante el fracaso en la Escuela y en la vida.
Tambien creo que si la lectura es importante en la escuela es porque lo es fuera de ella. No conviene olvidar esto, ya que hay padres que se preguntan : - ¿Acaso no les enseñan ya en el colegio?. Desde luego que a los niños les enseñan a leer en la escuela, pero en casa podeis hacerlo y disfrutar juntos de la maravillosa experiencia de descubrir el mundo de la lectura, de los cuentos, de los libros y de la autonomía personal tan amplia que le regalais al niño a través de su acceso a la lectura. Con un poco de tiempo diario de trabajo, un material sencillo y asequible y grandes dosis de entusiasmo podeis conducir a un hijo hasta la lectura, allanándole el camino del conocimiento.Sobre esto, por lo poco que e leído, es de lo que nos habla Glenn Doman en su libro “cuando enseñar a leer a los bebés” en el que nos ofrece un programa de lectura muy práctico y sencillo de seguir.
Nos aconseja sobre como presentar la lectura al niño a modo de juego, escenificando las palabras para evitar que se aburra, darle un sentido divertido y alegre a la lectura, etc.
Decir que yo antes de leer sobre el tema, tenia un pensamiento distinto, ya que me imaginaba la enseñanza a la lectura de los niños a temprana edad de una forma aburrida y pesada, quitándoles parte de la libertad de la disfrutan en tan temprana edad, pero es muy buena idea enseñar a leer a los niños desde pequeños, pero siempre JUGANDO.
Una pregunta de Glenn Doman que se me ha llamado mucho la atención es: ¿Quién lloraría la desaparición de la ignorancia, de la incompetencia, del analfabetismo, de la infelicidad y de la pobreza? Esto lo dejo caer para que cada uno tenga su opinion. Claramente me estoy refiriendo a la idea del gobierno respecto del aprendizaje.
Por ultimo ya, decir que no se debe tener miedo de hacer más inteligentes a los bebés sino que se debe aprovechar su capacidad de aprendizaje.
Si bien la herencia influye en la conducta de cada uno de nosotros, no se debe olvidar que el entorno es seguramente lo que más peso tiene en nuestra forma de ser.
Todos los niños al nacer están ansiosos por aprender, solo hay que motivarlos y enseñarles.
Desde aqui animo a todos los padres a que, en la medida de lo posible, enseñen a sus hijos a leer desde pequeños, pero siempre de una forma divertida y como mucho entusiasmo.
YALIA BALLESTEROS DELGADO
Estimada Yalia:
Muy interesante tu reflexión, es importante cuando uno se posiciona hacerlo con argumentos, como tú lo has hecho.
Saludos. José Manuel Bautista.
Yo estoy de acuerdo con que hay que enseñar a leer y a esribir a los niños antes de los tres años, ya que es verdad que todo aquello que pueda ser aprendido desde edad temprana supone los cimientos para su desarrollo personal.
Familiarizar al niño con las letras no es tarea fácil pero hay muchas técnicas como el leerle en voz alta que los padres deberian usar para que los niños comiencen a desarrollar su conocimiento de las palabras y las letras asi en la etapa de preescolar estaran listos y les será más fácil.
En mi opinión considero que es necesario ofrecer una estimulación sensorial temprana para asi obtener unas respuestas positivas a estos estimulos con el tiempo, ya que se irán adquiriendo capacidades de respuesta positivas a los conocimientos y a desarrollar la lectoescritura.
Está demostrado que durante este periodo de desarrollo los niños aprenden más rápidamente que en cualquier otra etapa de aprendizaje. Además, los niños están capacitados para aprender a leer y a escribir a esta edad . Lo que se puede corroborar con la idea de Glenn Doman : que defiende que un niño puede leer palabras con un año, frases pequeñas con dos, libros adaptados a su edad con tres, con el que estoy deacuerdo completamente.
Los niños tienen una mayor capacidad de aprendizaje a menor edad que a mayor edad, y es por ello que se debería llevar a cabo este metodo de enseñanza, siempre haciendolo de una forma amena, a traves del juego y de la mano de profesionales con una motivación verdadera. Pienso que se obtendrán unos mejores resultados si se empieza a una edad temprana y se va creciendo y desarrollando esa capacidad de lectoescritura y no intentar implantarlo o enseñarlo con seis años q no resulte motivador o incluso cuando ya se han adquirido palabras y se emplean de un modo inadecuado.
Esta labor seria más fructifera y mas fácil para los docentes si las familias participasen conjuntamente en esta tarea.
Patricia Sánchez Justo
Si todos los estudios acerca del desarrollo evolutivo de los niños señalan, a que cuando estimulamos a los pequeños les ofrecemos diferentes oportunidades para explorar, adquirir destrezas, habilidades y pensamos en el ritmo vertiginoso de su funcionamiento intelectual en los primeros años de vida, ¿por qué no enseñarles a leer a los tres años?, estudiando la metodología más adecuada y con el conjunto de medios, técnicas y actividades divertidas, estoy convencida que de una forma natural los niños serán capaces de reconocer y leer sus primeras palabras, facilitando de esta manera el posterior desarrollo de la habilidad lectora.
Estoy en total acuerdo en que los niños comiencen a leer antes de los 6 años, ya que creo que esto supondría un notable avance en el apredize de estos. Además, los niños son como “esponjas” que aprenden con mucha facilidad.
Sin embargo, estoy completamente en contra de que los niños se aburran en las clases porque si con 6 años ya saben leer podrían continuar aprendiendo otras cosas.
En conclusión, los niños que con 6 años sepan leer es un adelanto en su aprendizaje y tener una base mejor.
CRISTINA MARTÍN SOLÍS
Yo estoy de acuerdo con que los niños aprendan a leer y escribir en una edad temprana. Pues, mientras antes comienzen a aprender, a medida que va pasando el tiempo y se le va enseñando cosas, el individuo podra tener muxos más conocimientos y la capacidad de almacenar cosas mas facil, de tener la oportunidad de aprender cada vez más y mejor. Para que esto ocurra no solo se deberia encargar la escuela (como cree gran parte de la sociedad) sino que tambien se deberian encargar los padres de ello…muchos son los padres que solo se encargan del lenguaje oral y hay que destacar que el lenguaje escrito tambien es muy importante. Hay que reconocer que estamos hablando de niños muy pequeños por lo que, casi todavía ni siquiera sepan hablar bien, pero para ello se utilizarían técnicas de manera que para los niños sea ameno pero que a la vez estén aprendiendo. Hay que decir que cada vez los niños aprenden más pequeños y eso, bajo mi punto de vista está muy bien.
Buenas, os quiero contar una historia familiar. Yo tenía una tía abuela, la tía de mi madre era directora de una escuela privada en tiempos de franco. En casa de mi madre la lectura era casi obligada desde pequeños, y es que mi tía abuela era realmente una directora de las de regla en mano para el castigo, en sus últimos años que ya estaba muy malita se vino a vivir un año a mi casa y tenía por entonces yo un hermanito de 3 años, pues bien, y a lo que viene al caso, como mi tía abuela estaba realmente aburrida, antes no había telenovelas, y además era mujer de letras tomar, cogió a mi hermanito, que por entonces no había guarderías, y le enseñó a leer, antes de cumplir los 4 años mi hermano Pablo leía estupendamente, y ahora viene lo bueno, se ha convertido en un tipo listo, con 10 años ya publicó su primer artículo en una revista, hoy en día, con 30 años, es profesor de filología hispánica desde los 24 años, sus alumnos le adoran, tiene publicados varios libros premiados con galardones importantes y escribe en revistas y prensa. Yo estoy orgulloso de mi hermano, y aprendió a leer con 4 años.
Por lo tanto estoy de acuerdo contigo en que el saber no ocupa lugar, y dependerá de cada niño, de cada situación y del estímulo que reciban, el que aprenda antes a leer, pero sí sé, por mi hermano y por mis hijas y amigos, que con estímulos adecuados pueden perfectamente leer con 4 años, conocer reglas matemáticas, hablar al menos 2 idiomas y crecer sanos, felices y listos.
Javier Gutiérrez
Como bien dice en el texto José Manuel Bautista, “el saber no ocupa lugar”; con lo que es aconsejable que los niños y niñas se inicien en el camino de la enseñanza a una temprana edad, abarcando desde el aprendizaje de palabras sencillas hasta la lectura y comprensión de frases hechas literalmente complejas, comenzando todo esto desde los 3 a los 5 años aproximadamente, sin olvidar un espacio lúdico en estas aulas para los más pequeños; si a todo esto logramos combinar el buen trabajo del docente podremos conseguir un equilibrio madurativo a todos los niveles requeridos para completar un curriculum escolar óptimo, en consecuencia con las competencias requeridas para ésta generación.
yo personalmente considero que lo que comentas referente a que un niño se puede aburrir en clase porque ya sabe leer..pienso que un profesor debe de tener diferentes técnicas de enseñanaza para los diferentes alumnos posibles.
También considero certero la posibildad de construirle a un niño una base educativa desde una edad más temprana ya que actúan como esponjas,todo lo que aprenden se les queda de inmediato, incluso idioms,pienso que seguramente un niño que desde pequeño se le ha ido enseñando palabras en inglés el día de mañana le costará mucho menos el idioma que otro niño que lo desconoce por completo,y con lo del idioma lo pongo como ejemplo como puede ser también una lectura comprensiva.
Aquí influye mucho los pensamientos de los padres,la enseñanaza que ellos puedan transmitirles en su casa.Por eso hay gente que le es más fácil apuntar al niño a la escuela y despreocuparse,”que el colegio le enseña a leer cuando toque y yastas”.
Temenos que sacar jugo de la memoria que tiene el niño a edades tan tempranas, y que pueden llegar a dar tanto de sí que ni nos damos cuenta que con tan poquito podemos hacer mucho para él y su futuro .
Se me olvidó poner mi nombre: María José Carretero Sánchez.
Estoy totalmente de acuerdo en que los niños, no tienen, deben empezar a aprender a leer y a escribir a los tres años, ya que los niños son más receptivos.
Algunos que empiezan a leer a los seis años, les cuesta un poco más aprender y otros llegan a la E.S.O y no saben leer como deberían hacerlo a esa edad.
Si aprenden a leer con tres años, cuando lleguen a la adolescencia tendrán mayor conocimiento, los niños serán más cultos y, bajo mi punto de vista, en un futuro seguirán formándose muchos más alumnos que si empiezan a leer con seis años.
Por último decir que aparte de empezar a leer y a escribir antes de los tres años, en casa, sus padres, también deben ayudarles a ello.
CLAUDIA MUÑOZ MONTES
Bajo mi punto de vista, quizás sería un poco precipitado empezar a enseñar a lee y escribir a niños de tan temprana edad. Aún así, no lo veo una idea descabellada pues los conocimientos que antes aprendamos antes los podemos desarrollar y mejorar. Podríamos transladar el dicho “NO DEJES PARA MAÑANA LO QUE PUEDAS ACER HOY” a nuestro ejemplo. ¿Por qué enseñar algo a los años o más osi se puede hacer antes? Dentro de esto hay mmuchos aspectos como que niño aprenderá a una edad determinada, unos a los 2, a los 5… Por último y en conclusioón, podríamos empezar antes a enseñar a leer y escribir a los niños para su mejora personal en lo referido a la cultura y educación. Todo sería cuestión de trabajo, insistencia y paciencia.
La Universidad de Cambridge en un estudio realizado sugiere que la edad mínima para que un niño empiece a leer tiene que ser de seis años. En contrapartida el investigador Glenn Doman afirma que un bebé disfruta más aprendiendo que comiendo y que es factible que aprendan a leer antes de los tres años, ya que los bebés poseen una capacidad asombrosa para el aprendizaje a esas edades.
Mi experiencia como madre me dice que cuánto más pequeño es un niño más facilidad tiene para aprender. Tuve la suerte de que la promoción de mi hijo era muy buena y las profesoras nos reunieron para proponernos en “Infantil de 4 años” si podrían ver si los niños reaccionaban a la lectura. El resultado fue que llegaron a 1º de primaria sabiendo leer y escribir. En primero solamente tuvieron que coger velocidad en la lectura. Con 6 años ya leían libros adaptados a niños de 8 años con la letra mecanografiada.
Una estimulación temprana a mi parecer es favorable, ya que no debemos olvidar que hay estudios que demuestran que las capacidades cognitivas de los bebés son más precoces y complejas de lo que creemos.Como dijo Piaget allá por la década de los años 30, los bebés son activos exploradores de la realidad e incansables constructores de su propia inteligencia.
Saludos. Leonor Gómez Quintero
Seria un gran adelanto que los niños aprendieran a leer antes de los seis años y es posible conseguirlo. Actualmente se empieza a leer en primaria, pero si nosotros enseñáramos a nuestros hijos a leer desde que tienen tres años, ellos mismos lo considerarían como algo cotidiano y esto les facilitaría mucho a la hora de llegar a primaria y hacer una comprensión de una lectura o un breve resumen de lo que han leído.
No creo que los niños se aburran si empiezan a leer ante de los seis años, para que ellos no se aburran tú tienes que hacer una clase divertida y a la vez ellos van aprendiendo porque es a esa edad cuando los niños tienen una mayor capacidad de aprendizaje
La verdad y lo que creo sobre esto, es que la enseñanza es muy necesaria y mientras antes se comience a practicarla mejor.
Los niños desde chicos captan todo lo que hay a su alrededor tanto actitudes,instrumentos,normas etc a la vez que aprenden como:(pedir comida,llorar cuando quieren algo,saltar ,reirse etc…),todo esto es necesario tanto como el empezar con el lenguaje escrito lo antes posible,para que cuando vaya creciendo con el tiempo se vera reflejado todo lo que desde su infancia ha aprendido.Si por el contrario se empieza con una edad mas mayor como a partir de los 6 años se le plantearan muchísimas dificultades ya que tiene conocimientos adquiridos difíciles de cambiar.
Por ello hay que comenzar desde sus conocimientos de aprendizaje para que a la larga sea todo mucho más fluido y fácil para el niño en concreto.
Pues conforme a la opinión de José Manuel Bautista sobre este artículo, tengo que decir que estoy totalmente de acuerdo con usted. Los niños deben de enseñarles la lecto-escritura cuanto a más temprana edad, mejor. Estos niños podrán leer libros adaptados a su edad, provocando que mejore su capacidad lectora, aprendan nuevas palabras y a no cometer tantas faltas de ortografía. Por lo tanto, sigo diciendo que estoy de acuerdo con que a los niños les enseñen a leer y a escribir cuanto a mas temprana edad, mejor.
Quizás se oye decir que no es conveniente enseñar a leer a los niños hasta los 5 o 6 años porque es la edad en que los niños empiezan a cursar el primer curso de la educación primaria, educación obligatoria en España.
Desde mi punto de vista estoy y no estoy de acuerdo con esto. De los 2 a los 5 años, los niños deberían recibir una enseñanza que les ayudara a mejorar su autoconocimiento, la relación con otros niños y adultos, el lenguaje verbal y la confianza, y , por lo tanto, dejar los números y letras para más adelante, aprovechando el potencial de aprendizaje, no para absorber materias, sino para aprender a relacionarse entre ellos, disfrutando del juego y de la energía que tienen ( poco aprovechada si los sentamos delante de un libro o ante fichas varias horas al día).
Ahora si, a partir de los 5 años, si veo conveniente que se les empiece a inculcar el aprendizaje de la lectura o lecto-escritura, en mi opinión es en ese momento en el que los niños comienzan a tener un ínteres especial por la lectura y la escritura y no hay ninguna razón para no alimentar ese interés, que les ayudara a llegar a primaria con una buena base.
En Alemania hay un dicho: ” la primera letra con el primer diente”
Regina
Estoy de acuerdo con que “el saber no ocupa lugar”, pero pienso que antes de los tres años no es necesario enseñar a leer a los niños, ya que con esta edad, generalmente, solo son capaces de comunicarse con frases simples de tres y cuatro elementos. Entre los tres y cinco años, que ya son capaces de hacer esto con oraciones complejas, si creo que sería un momento más adecuado.
Antes de los tres años creo que es más importante que el niño se desarrolle en otros aspectos más necesarios y básicos, y a partir de esta edad no es tarde para que el niño aprenda a leer.
Coincido con la mayoría de los comentarios que he leído, si la niña o el niño empieza a desarrollar capacidades desde edades tempranas su evolución será más satisfactoria, ya que en estas edades es cuando el cerebro recibe la información con mayor facilidad, por lo menos esto es lo que tengo entendido, no soy una experta en estos temas. Lo que si conozco algo más son los recursos con los que cuentan estas familias de niñas y niños, ¿Por qué quien se supone que enseñaría a la niña o el niño a leer? ¿La madre o el padre? ¿La guardería? ¿…? En la sociedad que me rodea puedo observar como las madres y padres tienen largas jornadas de trabajo que les deja apenas tiempo para la educación de sus hijos, así que hago cuentas para saber de dónde sacarían el tiempo que le tienen que dedicar, por no hablar de la falta de conciencia y de conocimiento de muchos de estos padres y madres. Si la segunda opción es la guardería, ¿pueden todos los padres y madres hacer frente a este coste? Muchos hablan de guarderías subvencionadas pero la realidad es que una familia en paro tiene que hacer frente a 100 euros mensuales para que su niña o niño entre en esa tal guardería. La realidad que vivo es esta, así que antes de plantear esta cuestión yo plantearía ampliar el sistema educativo desde los 0 años de forma gratuita como se ha hecho con infantil y a partir de ahí empezar con la cuestión de cuando enseñar a leer a los niños.
Estoy de acuerdo con que los niños deben de aprender a leer antes des los seis años,ya que este es un factor muy importante en el desarrollo cognitivo del niños.
Aunque no creo que sea conveniente que durante los tres años que dura la educación infantil los maestros deban centrarse simplemente en enseñar a leer y hacer cuentas , sino que a esto hay que darle la justa importancia ya que los niños al igual que necesitan estas herramientas para en la primaria poder resolver otras cuestiones mas dificiles con mayor facilidad deben de recibir unos valores y una cultura que también son necesarios y le ayudaran en el desarrollo como persona.No convietiendose en una competencia entre profesores y padres para haber si sus alumnos o hijos aprenden a leer antes.
En mi opinión, pienso que cuanto más pequeño sea el niño, mayor capacidad de absorber información tendra,y cuanta mas información se le de , más retendra, ya que el niño pequeño tiene una gran energía y grandes deseos de aprender.
Creo que la lectura es la base de todo aprendizaje, porque es un juego al que el niño le va a gustar,ya que descubre el lenguaje y asi le enseñamos a progresar en a lo nuevo y desconocido.
Mi postura es que debemos enseñar a los niños la lectura a los pocos meses de vida, asi pues, obtendra mejor capacidad cognitiva en el futuro y con un mayor éxito, pero sin que tengan ninguna presión, que haya flexibilidad a la hora de aplicarle los conocimientos al niño sobre la lectoescritura , que sea como un juego donde el no se aburra aprendiendo y si llega a aburrirse pues debemos cambiar de actividad siempre enseñandole con alegria y enfocandole la lectura como una cosa divertida.
En definitiva,mi reflexión es que es mejor enseñar a los niños a leer a una edad temprana yo diria a partir de los dos años , porque creo que es mas difícil aprender a leer con 5 que con 3 o 2 años en la vida del niño, es su mejor momento para empezar la lectura y para ello creo que es importante la actitud de los padres a la hora de su enseñanza.
Para empezar, debo confesar que me encuentro muy desorientada ante la temática comentada, puesto que nunca me había parado a pensar sobre la misma. Pero creo que es un buen momento para documentarme un poco y poder ofrecer mi humilde opinión.
Después de haber leído varios artículos sobre el tema, debo decir que estoy totalmente de acuerdo con que se les ofrezca a los niños con menos de 3 años, ciertos conocimientos sobre la lengua, de modo que eso que aprendan con anterioridad les sirva en un futuro para tener una mayor fluidez y uso de la lengua. Obviamente para evitar que los niños se aburran en unas clases un poco más “densas” por ser tan pequeñitos, sería conveniente que el profesorado estuviese preparado convenientemente, y aplicara las múltiples técnicas existentes para ello.
Belén Cumbreras Marín
Estimada Belén:
Si el artículo te ha llevado a reflexionar sobre el tema y a documentarte para tener mayor conocimiento sobre la cuestión pues bienvenido sea, es lo mejor que podemos hacer. Buena conclusión la tuya, la comparto plenamente.
Saludos. José Manuel Bautista.
“El saber no ocupa lugar” que frase más acertada desde mi punto de vista para el tema que estamos tratando.Yo pienso que los niñ@s mientran antes empiencen a leer y a escribir antes empezarán a ser independientes en esta vida tan complicada que vivimos.Pero claro eso no es lo que precisamente le interesa a los artos cargos políticos que prefieren que veamos mucha tele y sigamos siendo unos ignorantes en esta vida como se está demostrando en la actualidad, donde los niñ@s llegan a la secundaria sin apenas tener vocabulario alguno,comentiendo faltas de ortografia garrafales y sin hábito de lectura.Pero para que esto cambie hace falta la ayuda indispensable de los profesores,los cuales no pueden permitir que sus niñ@s se aburran en las clases,para ello tiene que aplicar sus estudios para enseñar a los niñ@s ,mediantes juegos a leer y a escribir desde el primer añito de vida.es por ello que nos tenemos que ponernos las pilas para que nuestros niñ@s tengan la máxima educación posible y desde la más pronta edad. ROSARIO ORTEGA GONZÁLEZ
Desde mi punto de vista, estoy de acuerdo en que los niñ@s aprendan a leer antes de entrar en primero de primaria, ya que los niñ@s en esas edades tienen ma´s capacidad de aprendizaje y ni si quiera se dan cuenta de ello, por lo que lo ven como un juego.
Y creo que si aprenden a leer en preescolar no se tienen porque aburrir en primaria, si no al contrario, en primaria podri´an reforzar ma´s esa lectura y escritura ya aprendida.
Para terminar me gustari´a destacar que no solo los docentes deben de aprender a leer a los niños, si que los padres en sus casas deben reforzalo.
BELLA IRENE GONZALEZ CONTRERAS
Por mi parte, tengo que comentar que desconocía absolutamente el tema de reflexión ya que en nuestra sociedad parece ser que los que aparentemente la dirigen no le han puesto mucho empeño a esta campaña, ya que por lo que me suele parecer a mí, ellos ya lo tienen todo aprendido y saben muy bien leer y escribir… sólo les interesa sacar temas que les ayuden a ellos sobretodo y a su economía… y si no es así, es lo que aparenta ser por mi parte.
En mi opinión, estoy totalmente de acuerdo de que el momento de inicio de aprendizaje de los niñ@s comience antes de los 3 años ya que, después de haber leídos muchas fuentes de información que me han hecho reflexionar del tema recientemente, pienso que todo lo que nos propongamos hacer con un niñ@ pequeño lo vamos a conseguir y cuanto antes empecemos con la enseñanza mejor asimilación tendrá y su futuro será más facil.
Los niñ@s pequeños aprenden sin darse cuenta ya que su cabeza es como una esponjita que recoge toda la información aunque sea sin darse cuenta pero a la vez que pasa el tiempo el niño tiene esos conceptos ya asimilados y los puede sacar a la luz en cuanto quiera y pueda, y totalmente de acuerdo con el lema de “el saber no ocupa lugar”.
LYDIA AGUILAR CARO.
En mi opinión,primero deberíamos de poner la educación infantil como obligatoria, y así estimular a los niños desde temprana edad que hará que aprender a leer y escribir antes de llegar a la educación primaria sea un gran escalón para su desarrollo , ya que los alumnos se le podrá trasmitir más conocimientos ,y puede que mejore la educación, los maestro así podrán impartir una educación más completa donde los alumnos lleguen más preparados a la educación secundaria, pero no estoy tan de acuerdo con Glenn Doman ya que un niño con un año no creo que este tan desarrollado como para aprender a leer palabras , y que la mayoría de los niños no suelen hablar a esa edad. Además de este aprendizajes también debería establecer se una educación bilingüe ya que ellos adquieren conocimiento muy rápidamente, en algunos países esto está dando buenos resultados y aprender otro idioma les abre un gran abanico de posibilidades en su vida
Estimada Laura:
Sólo una apreciación, Glenn Doman se refiere a “niños de meses que reconocen palabras o reconocen el número de puntos de una lámina”, y de ahí en adelante todo en aumento, no es que hablen palabras a esa edad, pero sí las reconocen, lo cual es un primer paso muy importante. Fíjate que para ver esto con un refrán podemos decir: con un año andar, con dos hablar. Gracias por tu aporte.
Saludos. José Manuel Bautista.
Pienso que la capacidad de aprendizaje es mayor en los niños que en otras etapas más avanzadas, ya sea adolescencia, adultez e incluso la vejez, pero en estas últimas etapas se puede aprender a leer y hacer muchas cosas que en la actualidad son enseñadas a los niños, siendo así más facil de que estos lo aprendan y de cara a su futuro lo puedan usar, sin embargo un anciano que no sabe escribir y quiera aprender a sus 65 años pues le costará mucho más que a un niño.
Es por esto, por lo que pienso que el enseñar a escribir y a leer en una edad temprana (entre los 3 y los 6años) es esencial para el desarrollo de ese niño en el futuro, así cuando entre en la Educación Primaria ya sabrá algo que le servirá para tener un cierto nivel que le ayudará a comprender y a aprender cosas nuevas para él.
Concluyendo, mi opinión es que se debe aprender a leer a una edad temprana despues de los 3 y antes de los 6años.
JOSÉ LUIS CABRERA JURADO
Siempre se ha dicho que los niños son esponjas, que lo absorben todo, y tienen más capacidad para quedarse con las cosas desde muy temprana edad. Un ejemplo visible de esto y que nos rodea en la sociedad es la utilización por parte de ellos de los ordenadores que utilizan a su antojo sin ningún tipo de información sobre ello; solo lo cogen, manipulan, y empiezan a descubrir por ellos mismo los múltiples usos que de ellos se derivan. En mi opinión llevando este ejemplo a las escuelas creo que cuanto antes se enseñe a leer a un niño tanto mejor porque su estimulación del aprendizaje es mayor que ha más edad; aquí entraría en juego profesionalidad y vocación por parte de los docentes que harían que estos niños no se aburrieran en las aulas, por el hecho de saber leer y le resultaran las clases aburridas. ¿Qué buen profesor no pensaría de un niño aventajado: como él me gustaría tener media clase? Estoy totalmente de acuerdo de que los niños aprendan a leer lo antes posible, porque esto hace que su grado de comprensión sea mayor a la hora de coger un libro y entender lo que leen en diversas materias y en posteriores cursos.
Glenn Doman con su método afirma que un niño puede destacar desde muy temprana edad por su capacidad para aprender, un ejemplo lo tenemos en la lengua cuando un bebe con solo un año entiende cientos de palabras y en un par de años empieza a hablar con pequeñas frases, pero me ha llamado mucho la atención, el hecho de que hay personas que han utilizado el método con su bebe pero no lo hacen correctamente, llegando a preguntar a otras y quedándoles la duda. ¿Será que los padres pretendemos tener genios?…
JULIA DÍAZ RODRÍGUEZ
Estimada Julia:
Qué bien que hayas leído a Glenn Doman y sacado tus propias conclusiones. Debemos tener un criterio propio sobre las cosas.
Saludos. José Manuel Bautista.
Desde mi punto de vista es bueno que los niños comienzan su aprendizaje antes de la edad establecida por la escuela. Si aprendemos antes a leer posiblemante notemos adelanto en la vida en la escuela porque ese tiempo que deberian los niños estar aprendiendo a leer, lo pueden aprovechar en adquirir conocimientos de otro tipo. También destacar que si los niños aprenden a leer a los seis años supondrá un atraso para ellos y para la sociedad ya que está se compondrá de niños con dificultades para el aprendizaje porque el aprender a leer es un proceso duradero desde que el niño aprende a leer y reconocer letras hasta que se suelta y es capaz de hacerlo y a esta edad no debe de ser muy bueno desaprovechar el tiempo ya que luego repercute.
En conclusión yo estoy de acuerdo en que los niños aprendan a leer antes de lo 3 años ya que los niños cuando son mas pequeños poseen mucha capacidad para aprender. ROSA GONZALEZ MALDONADO
El aprendizaje de la lectura o de la escritura, en este caso centrandonos en la lectura en mi opinion no tiene que tener una edad, no podemos ponerle edad al conocimiento “con 6 años vas aprender a leer, con 8 vas aprender a dividir ,con 11 vas aprender hacer raices cuadradas…” no puede ser asi, ya que cada clase o mas bien dicho cada niño es un mundo, las escuelas pueden llevar un programa determinado en cada curso con los conocimientos que se van a tratar de adquirir pero el tema de la lectura el hecho de aprender a leer, puede darse a los 3 años, asi cuando los niños lleguen a primaria llegaran cun una base en lectura significativa, no cuesta ningun trabajo ir enseñando a los niños de 3 años algo de lectura, pero hay muchos profesores que cuando les enseñan las vocales ya estan satisfechos con su trabajo mas sabiendo que todos esos niños pueden llegar a leer y aprender algo mas que las simples vocales como frases corta.Por ello no podemos poner edad ni limites al aprendizaje y menos a algo tan importante en la vida como es el saber leer, que si se empezara a adquirir desde edades mas tempranas no abria problemas en primaria con muchos alunmos que llegan a 2 de primaria y no saben leer,por otro lado el articulo menciona que pueden muchos alumnos aburrirse en clase si aprenden a leer temprano no estoy de acuerdo con eso ya que si tu eneseñas a leer a un grupo de alunmos pues cada clase iras siguiendo el nivel de lectura de cada niño tampoco puedes exigirle a un niño de 3, 4, 5 años que lea un libro de conocimiento del medio… por ejemplo ,todo se trata de ir adecuando el nivel de conocimientos al nivel de los alumnos al ritmo de clase. Por ello no podemos limitar el conocimiento a tal edades ni dejar enseñar algo por que simplemente pensamos que es temprano para adquirir tal conocimiento.
¿Por qué esperar hasta los seis años para empezar a desarrollar la lectura y la escritura?
¿Sería excesivo que éstas se desarrollen junto con la expresión y comprensión oral?
Personalmente, creo que el proceso de aprendizaje infantil queda limitado a las directrices impuestas por el currículo de los centros infantiles docentes. A modo de prescripción médica, seguimos las indicaciones de maestros que marcan un ritmo impuesto por ley educativa, condicionando a los padres a que sus hijos desarrollen ciertas destrezas a edades más tardías.
Según Glenn Doman, “un bebé disfruta más aprendiendo que comiendo y son capaces de aprender cualquier cosa, especialmente poseen una capacidad asombrosa para el aprendizaje durante los primeros seis meses”. No se si apreciamos cuanto tiempo es desaprovechado hasta que un menor tiene su primer contacto con la palabra escrita. La mayoría de los padres dan mayor importancia al desarrollo psico-motor del bebé que al cognitivo, bien porque es socialmente lo adecuado (infravalorando mentalmente a su bebe), o porque desconocen técnicas didácticas enfocadas al desarrollo de conocimientos básicos como la lectura o escritura.
Son los progenitores ó tutores legales los responsables de la estimulación mental y física de sus hijos. La mayoría toma de referencia la escuela como una tabla, donde se especifica la edad que corresponde a los infantes el comienzo de ciertas actividades. Esta referencia popular no es fiable dado que en el siglo XXI se conocen procedimientos que positivizan el intelecto de los escolares aplicables a partir de los dieciocho meses. Por tanto es necesaria la difusión de dichas técnicas para mejorar la calidad dentro de la enseñanza obligatoria.
Estimado Javi:
Qué bien que has leído a Glenn Doman, espero que te hayan servido sus enseñanzas. Mucha gente en todo el mundo ha aplicado sus técnicas, los resultados han sido impresionantes.
Saludos. José Manuel Bautista.
Miles de estudios han demostrado que los niños aprenden más rápidamente y fácilmente desde una edad temprana,lo que supone,para el profesor y el alumno un trabajo muy fructífero,pero ¿Todos los profesores de Educación Infantil son capaces de llevar a cabo la tarea de enseñar la lecto-escritura sin que se aburran los niños?
Yo pienso que es algo difícil,porque los profesores que ya tienen sus años de experiencia enseñando,no creo que cambien su técnica de impartir clase, pero tengo fe (o al menos eso espero) que los nuevos titulados que son jóvenes e innovadores en su mayoría, emprendan nuevas técnicas para motivar al niño/a a que aprenda a leer antes de los 3 años porque esa es la única forma en la que el niño tenga unas bases muy bien fundadas para un aprendizaje posterior más fácil.
He salido a la calle y les he preguntado a un grupo que conozco de madres,las cuales tienen hijos pequeños (en concreto,con meses) y les he preguntado si les gustaría que sus hijos aprendieran a leer y escribir desde ya,y la gran mayoría me han hecho la siguiente pregunta : ¿pero eso es posible?. Yo le es contestado que si, insistente trabajo y paciencia es posible. Después de esto,me han dicho que sería un orgullo para ellas y además una ventaja para un futuro no muy lejano.
En conclusión, ellas ni siquiera sabían que enseñar la lecto-escritura a sus hijos pequeños era posible, pero después de mi breve explicación,todas estuvieron de acuerdo.
Yo pienso que el saber no ocupa lugar y si se puede empezar a aprender a leer y escribir desde muy temprano,mucho mejor. Además en esta sociedad es un paso más para la adaptación al medio que nos rodea, algo indispensable.
Querida Marta1991 (no sé tu nombre, por eso te llamo por tu nombre de usuaria):
Muy sugerente tu experiencia, muy bien hecho lo de preguntarle a las madres, ellas son parte de la sociedad, hay que contar con ellas, con la familia, los niños son suyos, nosotros ayudamos en su formación, colaboramos, tratamos de contribuir lo mejor posible. Ves que ellas querrían, nosotros tenemos que ofrecerles lo mejor, siempre contando con ellos, con la familia.
Muy sugerente, digo.
Saludos. José Manuel Bautista.
En mi opinión, los niños deberían empezar con la lectura y con la escritura antes de los tres años.
Para que esto ocurra es necesaria la colaboración de toda la sociedad y no solo de alumnos y maestros. Se necesita a unos padres dispuestos a dejar a sus hijos en los jardines de infancia para que estos puedan aprender. Cuando digo aprender no solo me refiero a leer o escribir, sino también a socializarse con los niños de su edad y con una autoridad mayor (el maestro). Esto aunque parezca sencillo no es nada fácil ya que son muchos los padres que no quieren dejar a sus hijos desde tan pequeños en guarderías.
También es necesaria la colaboración de los maestros. Yo pienso que lo que necesita la sociedad de hoy día son maestros competentes, que sepan enseñar y educar bien a sus alumnos, tengan estos la edad que tengan.
Con respecto a los niños, tengo que decir que se les abriría un camino lleno de posibilidades que ellos cuando tuvieran más edad decidirían si seguir o no.
Si todo esto se cumpliera y los niños pudieran aprender a leer antes de los tres años, llegarían a la edad primaria con muchos conocimientos adquiridos acorde con su edad y los maestros tendrían más tiempo de enseñar el temario asignado para ese año (cosa que no siempre se consigue actualmente) y adquirir otros conocimientos nuevos.
Para finalizar y haciendo referencia a la frase “si los niños aprendieran a leer pronto se aburrirían en clase” tengo que decir que no estoy nada de acuerdo con ella porque pienso que nunca dejamos de aprender cosas nuevas y que por mucho que sepa una persona nunca lo sabe todo.
MARI CARMEN RAMÍREZ SUÁREZ
Siempre he oido, que antes los niños nacían con los ojos cerrados, ahora nacen con ellos abiertos. El ser humano evoluciona, y no debemos impedirlo, ni poner obstáculos.
La educación ha de ser flexible en edades tempranas, para que el niño pueda asimilar el conocimiento, debemos ofrecerle un gran abanico de posibilidades. Si un niño con tres años tiene la capacidad de leer, adelante. Cuanto más llena lleve su mochila de conocimientos más lejos podrá llegar.
Saber leer y escribir es una herramienta tan imprescindible para su desarrollo porterior, que no creo que sea un problema, si el sistema educativo se adecúa, a esos niños que pueden hacerlo antes de los seis años.
LLenemos esa mochila del conocimiento de todo lo que el niño nos pide, porque no le pesará, sino todo lo contrario.
Hace tiempo leí, el acertadísimo lema de una campaña para fomentar la lectura, que decía: ” LEER, NOS HACE MÁS LIBRES”, hagamos que los niños lo sean, cuanto antes mejor, construiremos el camino para una sociedad mejor y más libre.
José Pérez Rubio.
Querido Pepe:
Magnífico, buena reflexión, trata de llevarla siempre a la práctica, ése es siempre el camino, el conocimiento, conocer, saber, la verdad, siempre nos hace libres.
Un abrazo. José Manuel Bautista.
Bueno, yo simlemente voy a describir mi experiencia.
Durante mi estancia en Irlanda, conviví con una familia la cual el padre era irlandés y la madre española(bueno lo siguen siendo). Cuando llegué las niñas del matrimonio tenían nueve meses y tres años y medio respectivamente. Me quedé deslumbrada de la capacidad de absorción y reacción de la hija mayor. Con tres años y medio hablaba perfectamente inglés y español, incluso manteniendo una conversación con los padres sobre el mismo tema, les respondía automáticamente a cada uno en sus correspondiente idiomas. La niña era totalmente consciente de que su padre hablaba inglés y su madre español y así respondía ella sin ningún tipo de impedimento y con una facilidad admirable(y una envidia sana por mi parte).
La hija menor al principio no hablaba,pero conforme iban pasando los meses tuve la oportunidad para mi deleite, de ver como iba adquiriendo términos en ambos idiomas. Perpleja me quedé la primera vez que a su madre le pidió “agua” y a su padre “water”.
Lo que quiero indicar con toda esta historia, es que a esas edades tan tempranas los niños son sin lugar a dudas auténticas esponjas y al igual que estos padres les inculcaron a sus hijas desde que nacieron a hablar en ambos idiomas, pues también se les puede infundir cualquier tipo de actividad en la que desarrollen un proceso cognitivo o bien estimule su creatividad, su capacidad sensorial, etc. En definitiva potenciar aquellas funciones que posteriormente derivarán en una mayor interés y BENEFICIO para el niño.
Y respecto a la cuestión sobre la posibilidad de que el niños se aburra en clase,pues sólo esperar que los nuevos docentes, jóvenes, con ganas de trabajar, dinámicos, creativos, innovadores, no den lugar a esa triste situación ya que probablamente estarían retrasando en desarrollo del niño.
Querida Mariflor (hay que poner el nombre así no llamo a nadie por su nombre de usuario):
How long were you in Éire? Marvellous place, where did you stay in Ireland? Was it a place for learing English?
Sólo te digo que después de leer tu muy interesante experiencia en Irlanda te pido que actúes en consecuencia pues has aprendido algo valioso allí, así que trata de llevar a la práctica como profesional o como persona lo que has aprendido, el conocimiento que has adquirido…
Saludos. José Manuel Bautista.
Hola Jose Manuel,
pues verás, estuve viviendo cerca de un año. Me fui como aupair por cambiar de aires y así aprovechar para desarrollar mi pésimo nivel de inglés.Y sí que tengo que reconocer que ha sido una de las experiencias más enriquecedoras de mi vida, sobre todo a nivel personal. Viví en Bray, un pueblecito costero situado al sur de Dublin, a unos 25 minutos en Dart. La verdad que es un lugar con encanto y junto con la amabilidad de su gente hacen que no me quede otra que recomendárselo a todo el mundo.
Estoy de acuerdo con que los niños empiecen a leer a una edad temprana.Si un niño llega a los 3 o 4 años no leyendo bien pero si entiendiendo y reconociendo muchas letras y palabras,en un futuro se le podra quiza pedir mas conocimientos y podra rendir mejor en los estudios, ya que los seres humanos, nos convertimos en lo que seria nuestro entorno social.
Tambien algunos padres se creen que solo la escuela y colegios son los que enseñan a los niños pero no es asin,porque su entorno cumple un papel muy especial e importante.Muchos padres se limitan solo a hablarle,aun sabiendo que no entienden nada ,hasta que de pronto un buen dia demuestran que comprenden alguna palabra.
El lenguaje oral tambien es muy importante y tambien lo es el lenguaje escrito que es indispensable para la vida social.Sin escribir y sin leer apenas se puede vivir, se cierran muchas puertas.
Maria Doña Corrales
En mi opinión, creo que sería un gran avance para la escuela, que niños de preescolar empezaran a leer antes de pasar a la educación primaria, pues hay niños que cuando empiezan a leer a los seis años les cuesta un poco más que a los demás y terminan por leer medianamente bien.
No creo que los niños que aprendan a leer antes de los seis años, se aburran en clase. Si estos niños llegan a la educación primaria sabiendo leer, sería mucho más fácil enseñarles a comprender y analizar una lectura, que hoy en día les resulta complicado o que simplemente no llegan a aprender.
Como bien dice en el texto, alfabetizar no es tarea fácil, ni es un tema sin importancia, es por eso que yo personalmente apoyo a la idea de aprender antes de llegar a la educación primaria.
Hay estudios que constatan que los niños tienen una mayor capacidad de aprendizaje a menor edad que a mayor edad, y es por ello que se debería aprobar la enseñanza antes de los seis años.
Sheila Vázquez Borrero
Estimada Sheila:
Muy interesante tu reflexión, y de acuerdo con que se comience antes de los 6 años, por tanto antes de llegar a la Primaria.
Saludos. José Manuel Bautista.
Está demostrado que durante este periodo de desarrollo los niños aprenden más rápidamente que en cualquier otra etapa de aprendizaje. Además, los niños están capacitados para aprender a leer y a escribir a esta edad.
Haciendo referencia al texto, pienso que hay muchas dinámicas de aprendizaje divertidas y amenas para los niños, bien sea para la lectoescritura, como para el aprendizaje de cualquier otro tema, por lo que en teoría no se deberían aburrir en clase. Además, los profesores deben ir renovándose y aprender nuevas técnicas de enseñanza.
Pero también decir que, el aprendizaje de la lectura debe estar reforzado por los padres en casa tengan la edad que tengan, creándoles hábitos de lectura, ya que es muy importante tanto para su desarrollo, como para crear hábitos de estudio o para su desenvolvimiento futuro en la sociedad.
Tras una lectura minuciosa y exhaustiva del artículo, he de confesar que me encontré personalmente ante un total y absoluto desconocimiento del tema a tratar.
Con el objeto de proceder a dar un posicionamiento crítico y fundamentado me encontré ante una ardua e intensa tarea de recopilación de información y de autodidactismo, la cual ha dado sus frutos, creándome por tanto, mi particular prisma sobre el tema.
Sobre el debate de la edad en la cual iniciar a los niños/as en la tarea del aprendizaje de la lecto-escritura; presento un desconocimiento por quienes lo suscitan y desde cuando, es decir, que grupo, movimiento o foro social eleva a la opinión pública dicho debate y desde cuando se dilata en el tiempo.
Debido a que uno de los objetivos explícitos en el artículo es que el lector exponga su particular opinión, a continuación comenzare a desarrollar mi prisma particular y personal.
Puesto que las edades que se barajan para el inicio de la lecto-escritura son: antes de tres años o a partir de los seis años de edad, implícitamente debemos ubicarnos en el periodo de la educación infantil.
De conformidad con lo tipificado en la Ley Orgánica 2/2006, de 3 de mayo, de Educación, concretamente en su Título I, Capítulo I, artículo 12.1 se establece que la educación infantil constituye la etapa educativa con identidad propia que atiende a niñas y niños desde el nacimiento hasta los seis años de edad. Asimismo, el Real Decreto 1630/2006, de 29 de diciembre, por el que se establecen las enseñanzas mínimas del segundo ciclo de la educación infantil, en su artículo 1 además de lo antes mencionado establece que esta etapa se ordena en dos ciclos. El primero comprende hasta los tres años, y el segundo, desde los tres años a los seis años de edad y que la educación infantil tiene carácter voluntario. El segundo ciclo de esa etapa educativa será gratuito.
Por tanto, la institución de la escuela, como lo expuesto por nuestro estado, materializado en la vigente normativa del año 2006 nos expone claramente que ellos asumirán y por ende procederán al inicio de la tarea de aprendizaje de la lecto-escritura (objetivo tipificado en el Título I, Capítulo I, artículo 13 opción g de la Ley Orgánica 2/2006, de 3 de mayo, de Educación) con el niño/a como muy temprano en el segundo ciclo de la educación infantil (único ciclo de la educación infantil que desarrolla la norma, por tanto, único ciclo que presenta un currículo educativo reglado), es decir, con al menos tres años y menos de seis años de edad; además establece que es de carácter voluntaria, por tanto, estará supeditada al criterio de los padres o tutores del niño/a.
En conclusión, el inicio o no, de la lecto-escritura durante la educación infantil es un derecho que tienen los padres o tutores de los niños/as a ejercer o no, que irá en función del grado de estimulación cognitiva que dichos padres quieran ofrecer al niño/a, puesto que todo periodo comprendido desde el nacimiento hasta los seis años de edad es completamente voluntario a la vez que gratuito.
Finalmente y en mi opinión, pienso que el verdadero debate no es el de iniciar o no, antes de tres años o después de seis años de edad al niño/a en el aprendizaje de la lecto-escritura; sino que hasta que punto será legítimo dejar al libre albedrío de los padre o tutores el derecho inherente de los niños/as a una estimulación cognitiva adecuada en el primer ciclo de la educación infantil.
Estimado Fran:
Más allá de la opiniión que pueda tener acerca de tu reflexión y posicionamiento, sobre todo en relación a la afirmación que dejas caer en el último renglón, decirte que ha sido magnífico el enfoque y la manera en que has desarrollado tu punto de vista sobre el tema.
Saludos. José Manuel Bautista.
En mi opinión, veo mucho mejor que los niños comiencen a leer y a escribir a una edad temprana, ya que le será más fácil desenvolverse en su vida social y personal de una manera más independiente y le ayudará a comprender en la sociedad donde se van a mover.
De todas formas, no creo que se pueda establecer una edad concreta para que todos los niños y niñas puedan aprender a leer y a escribir ya que cada niño necesita su ritmo para ir desarrollándose, unos aprenderán a los tres, otros a los cinco, otros a los seis… Aparte de eso, no me sorprende que los altos cargos políticos defiendan que es mejor enseñarles, a los niños y niñas, a partir de los cinco o seis años, porque siempre será mejor “manipular” y guiar a una sociedad con escasos conocimientos que ha una sociedad culta, aficionada a la lectura, con inquietudes y con una buena cultura general.
Me parece que aquí la cuestión principal no está sólo en decantarse por un “a favor” o un “en contra”. Bajo mi punto de vista no creo que los padres se nieguen ante al hecho de que sus hijos aprendan a leer desde temprana edad. Es más, suele ser un motivo de orgullo para ellos si alguno de sus hijos, en los primeros años de vida, comienza a realizar determinadas acciones “antes de lo común” (como andar, hablar, y por qué no: leer).
Aún así, siempre me gusta mirar las dos caras de la moneda, dos opciones posibles en un debate), aunque después me posicione en alguna de ellas; para mí es importante intentar entender, o al menos analizar las dos posiciones para así poder justificar más claramente la tendencia/opción que va más acorde con mis ideas. Ante esto, me planteo dos líneas de pensamiento básicas a las que intentaré, en la medida de lo posible, seguir con un razonamiento hasta lograr una conclusión.
Por una parte, si los niños comienzan a leer a una edad, digamos, más temprana que lo que hasta ahora está “establecido”, podemos encontrarnos con dificultades tales, como se comentaban en el artículo: que se aburran en la escuela. ¿Tenemos que presuponer la buena fe de los profesores que no dejarán que los niños se aburran? Sinceramente, la experiencia demuestra, que en general y hasta ahora, vivimos en una sociedad donde no prima precisamente la motivación del profesorado, por lo tanto, difícilmente podríamos evitar esta dificultad. Aunque también, por otra parte, debíamos plantearnos el hecho de que se está realizando una gran reforma al sistema educativo, y aunque lentamente, parece que se está avanzando en cuanto a este compromiso y motivación, sobre todo en generaciones más jóvenes, más dinámicas, en personas que acaban de salir de sus estudios y pretenden innovar, o por el contrario, en algunos de los veteranos que están cansados de que todo sea igual que siempre y se unen a la causa. Por lo tanto, creo que se abre una posibilidad, un hilito de luz, que a la larga, hará contemplar a los detractores de esta propuesta de que es muy posible realizarla.
Y por la otra y después de haber leído algunas de las aportaciones de Glenn Doman al asunto, (creo que básicamente a lo que se refiere es a que cuanto menor sea la edad de un niño, tanto más fácilmente puede aprender ya que nadie quiere ni puede aprender más y mejor que un niño menor de tres años) me ha llamado mucho la atención una de sus afirmaciones; en la cual quiero hacer hincapié, porque me parece bastante importante a la hora de explicar por qué los niños aprenden tantísimo en sus tres primeros años de vida y cómo podemos utilizar eso para que aprendan conceptos respetando y favoreciendo el juego; Y es la siguiente : “El niño prefiere aprender antes que jugar o comer”. Creo que sobre todo comparto con él la esencia de esta aportación, aunque con un cierto matiz: siempre he pensado que el juego es el método que todos traemos de serie para comprender nuestro entorno, que es algo innato, puesto que nunca he considerado que el ser humano sea una tabula rasa al nacer. Bajo mi punto de vista, no es que el niño prefiera aprender a jugar ni a comer, sino que el juego y el aprendizaje van cogidos de la mano como consecuencia recíproca el uno del otro, y que se van autoestimulando como en un bucle de retroalimentación positiva, y que esto, tal vez involuntariamente, absorbe tanto que los niños se olvidan hasta de comer (y yo que procedo de un pueblo pequeño, no pude evitar sonreírme leyendo este enunciado, cuando me vino a la mente la típica imagen del niño jugando en la calle y la madre/padre corriendo tras de él con el bocadillo en la mano). Además, la experiencia me ha demostrado (Y sobre todo en edad adulta y gracias al descubrimiento de las dinámicas de Animación Sociocultural) que jugando se produce un aprendizaje más significativo y duradero y que la realidad es mucho más fácil de interpretar.
Por tanto, y ahora me posiciono: Teniendo en cuenta que la lectoescritura es un sistema esencial para entender el medio social en el que nos movemos, ¿Qué impedimentos se pueden poner a que los niños comiencen a leer antes de los tres años? ¿No los estaríamos ayudando a comprender más fácilmente todo lo que les rodea? Con un método adecuado en el que el aprendizaje se convierta en un juego (como Las regletas de Cuisenaire, para transmitir conocimientos numéricos), evitamos la negación futura que los niños, ya convertidos en alumnos de E.G.B/LOGSE etc. tienen respecto a la obligación de adquirir esos conocimientos y a su vez disminuiremos el fracaso escolar.
En resumidas cuentas:ESTOY TOTALMENTE A FAVOR DE QUE LOS NIÑOS COMIENCEN A LEER ANTES DE LOS TRES AÑOS.
Estimada Manuela:
Muy interesante tu reflexión y posicionamiento sobre el tema, totalmente de acuerdo con la frase: “Teniendo en cuenta que la lectoescritura es un sistema esencial para entender el medio social en el que nos movemos”.
Saludos y no olvides poner siempre al final tu nombre.
José Manuel Bautista.
En el momento en el que un niño comienza a tener capacidad para memorizar y diferenciar objetos, sonidos…etc; es, entonces, cuando podemos iniciar el aprendizaje.
Desde mi punto de vista, mientras antes aprendamos a leer mejor será para nuestro desarrollo posterior, ya que si desde un primer momento sabemos desenvolvernos, sin necesidad de obtener ayuda de nadie, nos haremos mas independientes y, en consecuencia, mas maduros en cierta medida. Pero ahora bien, todos somos conscientes de que políticos, gobernantes…no son tolerantes de que su sociedad, la que gobiernan, sea una sociedad culta y reivindicadora de sus derechos sino una gran masa de analfabetos a los que manejar para así poder gobernar a su antojo: proponen ver televisión pero con programaciones basuras que ellos mismos crean para entretener y “embobarnos” en vez de animarnos a la lectura.
De ahí que en los proyectos educativos aboguen por una iniciación al aprendizaje tardío.