Méthode syllabiqueLa méthode syllabique, couramment appelée « b.a. – ba », est une méthode d'apprentissage de la lecture consistant à identifier les lettres présentes dans un mot, afin de pouvoir les combiner en syllabes pour arriver à la formation d’un mot. Il s’agit d’un mécanisme associatif. Une fois que la relation entre le phonème – élément sonore distinctif du langage – et le graphème – s, c, ss, sc, ç sont des graphèmes correspondant au phonème [s] – est maîtrisée, l’enfant apprend à lire les assemblages de graphèmes sous forme de syllabes ou de mots.
Lecturethumb|upright=1.5|La lecture, Henri Fantin-Latour (1870) La lecture peut être définie comme une activité psychosensorielle qui vise à donner un sens à des signes graphiques recueillis par la vision et qui implique à la fois des traitements perceptifs et cognitifs. L'histoire de la lecture remonte à l'invention de l'écriture au cours du millénaire avant notre ère. Bien que la lecture de textes imprimés soit aujourd'hui un moyen important d'accès à l'information pour la population en général, cela n'a pas toujours été le cas.
Synthetic phonicsSynthetic phonics, also known as blended phonics or inductive phonics, is a method of teaching English reading which first teaches the letter sounds and then builds up to blending these sounds together to achieve full pronunciation of whole words. Synthetic phonics refers to a family of programmes which aim to teach reading and writing through the following methods: Teaching students the correspondence between written letters (graphemes) and speech sounds (phonemes).
Analytic phonicsAnalytic phonics (sometimes referred to as analytical phonics or implicit phonics) refers to a very common approach to the teaching of reading that starts at the word level, not at the sound (phoneme) level. It does not teach the blending of sounds together as is done in synthetic phonics. One method is to have students identify a common sound in a set of words that each contain that same sound. For example, the teacher and student discuss how the following words are alike: pat, park, push and pen.
Balanced literacyBalanced literacy is a theory of teaching reading and writing the English language that arose in the 1990s and has a variety of interpretations. For some, balanced literacy strikes a balance between whole language and phonics and puts an end to the so called reading wars. Others say balanced literacy, in practice, usually means the whole language approach to reading.
Reading comprehensionReading comprehension is the ability to process written text, understand its meaning, and to integrate with what the reader already knows. Reading comprehension relies on two abilities that are connected to each other: word reading and language comprehension. Comprehension specifically is a "creative, multifaceted process" dependent upon four language skills: phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.