Picture Clues: The Analytic Approach. Approaches that introduce reading through the study of words in context are called analytic methods. Such approaches consider whole words and groups of words before the study of letters or individual sounds begins.
The Whole Word Method. The whole word or look-say method introduces the pupil to reading by helping him develop a repertory of words that he can recognize at sight. Picture clues and word-configuration clues are used as temporary aids to help pupils recognize words at the beginning of the reading program.
By interpreting geological maps and examining rocks for clues about the environment in which they were originally deposited, it is possible to piece together clues to the earth's past. This information can be represented in palaeogeographic maps, which portray the surface features of the earth as it existed during any given era in history [4],Maps can also be constructed so as to show the past distribution of climatic zones.
Later they learn to recognize short vowels and the part they play in words of one syllable, then to recognize long vowels, and finally to study how longer words are built up of syllables. Along with this instruction in phonics the teacher continues to help them develop other word-recognition skills (44, 1948). The three main methods of learning new words are by context clues, by word-form clues, and by word analysis. Word analysis may be either phonetic or structural-i.e., analysis of roots, prefixes, suffixes, inflectional endings; or of syllables.
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