How is Literacy taught?
Steiner education is deeply bound up with the oral tradition, typically beginning with the teacher telling the children fairy tales throughout Kinder and Class 1. The oral approach is used all through Steiner education: mastery of oral communication is seen as being integral to all learning. Direct reading instruction follows the teaching of writing. During Class 1, the children explore how our alphabet came about, discovering how a letter form can evolve out of a pictograph. Writing thus evolves out of the children’s art, and their ability to read evolves from the daily re reading of their written work.
