My methodology to teaching reading would be the holistic approach. This approach includes full language and look & say. I like that the emphasis is on teaching reading, writing, listening and oral language. Emphasizing these skills leads students to maximize their understanding of text, identify relevant and irrelevant information, and tolerate less than word-for-word comprehension. In class, I would focus more on learning than teaching. Thus, by adopting a holistic linguistic approach, assessment is continuous and takes many forms: I would collect samples of performance or daily work; observe and record children's behavior; record them on audio and video tape in different situations; and have them create a portfolio filled with information about each student. A holistic approach is based on the principle of perceiving meaningful wholes, uses the child's immediate environment and experiences, encourages the integrative and interdisciplinary approach to the program and seeks to cultivate reading. with fluency and understanding from day one, and teaches decoding skills through the meaning of the text. The only problem with the holistic approach is that it starts more slowly with slower decoding speed of unknown or nonsense words and results in uncontrolled guessing. But I would make sure these problems don't happen. I like to say that children are decision makers in how to use the skills they have learned in reading. I can show them the way but encourage them to make the decision on how to use their skills. awareness. The skills that would be taught are reading aloud, which helps students perceive meaningful wholes and makes it easier for students to experience what they hear and learn. Students should define the middle of paper......rt, this one being teacher, teacher, teacher, student, during the discussion and then eventually lead it to teacher, student, student , to the student. , and it would go from there to the student, to the student, to the student, to the teacher. Instead of teaching literacy lessons, we as teachers are more likely to provide models of literacy activities to children by reading them to them first. The practice encourages students to be aware of what they are doing as they complete their reading assignments. Works CitedMoy, N. (Designer). (1998). Reading strategies. What do good readers do? [Internet]. Retrieved from http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/National Capital Resource Center, Initials. (Designer). (2004). The essentials of language teaching.. [Web]. Retrieved from http://www.nclrc.org/about.htmlWeaver, C. (2002). Reading process and practice. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Educational Books.