Linguistic Approach to

Reading

Bloomfield Approach
 Bloomfield Approach

• 1.    The child should be

acquainted with the letters of
the alphabet at the very start,
before reading is begun.
• 2. The child should begin with
the capital letters and then go
to the lower case letters.
• Two grounds where Bloomfield
finds fault with the phonic
methods:

1. The inventors of phonic methods

confuse writing with speech.

2. Phonic methods the speech

sounds.
3.  Example of the Bloomfield approach:

a).    The word “cat” is shown to the child.

b).    The child already knows the names of the
letters in their order.
c).    The teacher lets the child read the word “cat”
with her.
d).    Next, the teacher shows the same vowel and
final consonant but with a different initial letter,
e.g., fat, mat, hat, etc.
e).    The child goes through the same procedure.
f) .   This is followed by practice until the child can
say the right word whether singly or together.
 bat cat fat hat mat rat sat tat vat pat
a bat a cat a hat a mat a rat a
vat
a fat cat a fat rat sat on the mat

A fat cat sat on the mat.

A fat cat ran after a fat rat.
A fat cat is at bat.
A fat rat is at bat.