Macro Skill, Part #2 Reading.

 15/02/2024

To start with, Louisa C. Moats. Ed. D. gave insight about the phonology awarenes, she stated that there is a relationship between phonological awareness and reading, she mentioned the importance of identifying aspect of reading from students, and when we teach to students, we got to use phonology, so students can identify consonant and vowels sound correctly. Phonological awareness is the foundation of reading and spelling.

To continue with, I thought  reading was a matter of either understanding a lecture for us or share it loud for a class with the purpose of understanding the content and context of the lecture, in addition I didn’t know about the phonological awareness, it was the first time I heard about it, nor I knew how important that could be. Furthermore, during the class discussiont there were important points mentioned that for the macro skill (speaking, reading, listening, writing) reading could be the hardest because is not just a matter of read letter, reading involves feelings and anything that can be perceive with our sense. We can also even read images or expressions from people, so reading does not involve a text in specific further, it was mentioned about the simple view of reading, this is word recognition, language comprehension that comes up with reading comprehension. In addition, reading involves phonological processes that allows us to perceive, remember, interpret, and produce a speech sound system of our own language and learn the sound of other languages.

To conclude,  I have identified how phonology needs to be part of the reading learning process to clearly identify sound, as well as phonological awareness is quite important for reading and spelling so as teachers we must consider all this aspect when teaching to children to read.