1. The total words per-page of any given reading materials contain over 90% of lower case letters. Pick up any book, magazine or flier beside you; go through it you will find out that it contains great percent of lower case.
2. Letter sound makes it possible for child to read some unknown words by themselves but are limited to certain extent due to lack of knowledge of the letter names.
3. Letter names also make reading possible but the child will depend heavily on the teacher teaching him because whole world method is used when a child only has letter names knowledge.
Looking at the above factor you could tell that teaching lower case letters first is more important than teaching upper case letters and also teaching of letter sound first has more advantage than teaching letter names first according to the research. But there is now a developed technique which makes it possible to teach letter names and letter sound as well teaching of upper case and lower case simultaneously. A child taught the four skills will be able to read any book that involve upper case and lower case as well as applied the knowledge of letter names to study some tricky words which he come across while reading.
In conclusion, the four skills are important and could be taught simultaneously, but if the child cannot cope to learn everything together, letter names, letter sound and lower case letters must be taught first while the upper case comes later.
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