Developing reading and writing skills

At age six is when children are better prepared for learning reading and writing skills through a specific method, since it’s the time when their cognitive development enable them to do so.

Before this stage children need to be prepared through a process called Preparation, which encourages them in various aspects, making the process of learning to read and write unwrap without much difficulty.

Through the Global Method, children acquire reading and writing skills in a natural way; they are encouraged to work with their own experiences, creating short sentences by using their own vocabulary, so they can later write them along the teacher, repeating and illustrating them.

This way they learn to read in a fluid and clear way. For this method, it’s important to work with the children’s familiar experiences when writing short texts and giving meaning to the sentences.

General Objective

• Research the Global Method system.
• Distinguish the steps in this method and how to apply them.

Specific Objectives

• Learn the Global Method’s functionality.
• Recognize characteristics of this method.
• Acquire the knowledge for a correct application.
• Use this method on a language therapy session.