Category Archives: Early childhood education
Do We Need to Follow Alphabetic Order to Teach Literacy?
Recently a comment was made about Khoj methodology that it didn’t follow the alphabetic order in teaching literacy and it was a problem that needed to be rectified. This statement prompted me to raise the following questions:
- Is there a logic in following the alphabetic order to teach literacy?
- Does this order yield sequential milestones in learning? Is a child able to write certain words and sentences after learning a given number of letters in the alphabetic order? For instance, can they make any given number of words after learning from ا to ث ہ or from ج to خ?
- Is learning is at a faster pace if the letters of alphabet are first abstractly learnt?
The answer to all the above questions is an emphatic no.