Is Learning to Read at a Waldorf School Really that Different?
Teachers at Waldorf Schools, as in other schools, directly teach reading to students in the early elementary grades. The goal everywhere is to create literate individuals. Students are considered literate when they have integrated the skills of phonetics, decoding, and comprehension, and ultimately become self-motivated readers who read for enjoyment and knowledge. The primary difference at Waldorf is only the order in which we teach the skills to reach the same end. Most educators open the door to reading for their students by first focusing on phonics and decoding skills. Comprehension skills, although not ignored, are usually emphasized after students have reached a certain level of reading fluency.
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