Doing Words

Katie Johnson has demystified whole language with this practical and fun method of teaching young children to read and write. I have had the pleasure of using this book (based on Sylvia Ashton-Warner's philosophy)in a classroom with four and five year olds. My students were delighted to "do their words" every day and they were on the road to becoming literate at an impressive rate. Now I have a four year old of my own, and I am "doing words" with her at home. With Johnson's simple method she is now learning words by sight along with letter sounds, and is learning how to form letters properly. I never have to coax my daughter to "do her words". She comes to me every day and asks, "Can we do our words now?"