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Michael Rosen is a former Children's Laureate and the bestselling author of We're Going on a Bear Hunt (which won the Smarties Best Book of the Year Award) and many other books. He has also presented Word of Mouth on BBC Radio 4 since 1998. He has a Phd in Education, been awarded five extra honorary doctorates by various universities and made Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature) by the French government. In 2013 he became Professor of Education Studies at Goldsmiths.
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As daily viewers of films, we regularly accept something odd: the focus pull. We look at a scene in which, say, there is some blurry stuff on one side of the screen while in the distance someone is going about their business. Then, for no immediate apparent reason, the blurry stuff stops being blurry and we suddenly start to see someone or something who has some kind of relation to that first figure. Without the use of lenses, we're able to do something similar with the alphabet. For much of the time, particularly when we're reading, the alphabet is out of focus. Unlike the blurry film, though, it is more as if we both look with it and through it at the same time!
So, when we're learning to read, we learn any or all of these: the names of letters, the sounds of letters, the sounds of combinations of letters and we learn how in English, the match between letters and sounds is not 100% regular. Sometimes letters can denote different sounds: the 'ch' in 'machine' asks us to make a different sound from the 'ch' in 'chapter'. Sometimes a given sound can be denoted in different ways: in most dialects of English 'crow' rhymes with 'though', 'so', 'sew', 'beau' or 'oh'. Yet, we would never be able to read for the purpose of ...
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