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How Will My Child
Learn
to Read?
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Learning
to read does not happen all at once. It involves a series
of stages that lead, over time, to independent reading and to
fluency. The best time for children to start learning to
read is when they are very young, usually at the preschool
level. This is when they are best able to start developing
basic reading skills .
It takes
time to pass through each of the following reading stages, and
your child will need plenty of attention and support as he or
she moves through them. You can play a leading role in
helping your child acquire the reading skills he or she needs to
succeed! Select
each stage below to learn more. |
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The Pre-Reader and The Beginning
Reader:
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likes to look at books and likes to read to
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likes to behave like a reader-for example, holds books and
pretends to read them
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learns about words by looking at picture books and playing with
blocks that have letters on them, magnetic letters, and so on
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learns about words and songs, rhymes, traffic signs, and logos on
packages of food
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learns how text works- for example, where a story starts and
finishes and which way the print proceeds
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begins to understand that his or her own thoughts can be put into
print
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uses pictures and memory to tell and retell
a story
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The Emerging Reader:
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is ready to receive instructions
about reading
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learns that text is a common way to
tell a story or to convey information
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begins to match written words to
spoken words and to perceive relationships between sounds and
letters
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begins to experiment with reading,
and is willing to try to say words out loud when reading simple
text
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finds the pictures helpful in
understanding the text, and learns that the words convey a message
consistent with the pictures
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The Early Reader
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develops more confidence and uses a variety of methods, such
as relying on visual cues, to identify words in texts
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adapts his or her reading to different kinds of texts
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recognizes many words, knows a lot about reading, and is
willing to try new texts
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The Fluent Reader:
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thinks of reading as a good thing and does it automatically
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uses a variety of methods to identify words and their meanings
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can read various kinds of texts and predict events in a story
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relates the meaning of books to his or her own experience and
knowledge, and understands what is new
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