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Reading Building Blocks

Reading Building Blocks

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Developing reading skills is like building. Each developmental brick adds onto the reader’s foundation for understanding. Educators and parents can help children develop the decoding skills needed to become successful readers.

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The Process of Reading

Reading is a language-based skill. As such, it requires the processing of language that is decontextualized from any ...

Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Early Literacy Skills

Unfortunately, many parents judge the value of a preschool by how much reading is taught there. The philosophy that ...

Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Early Reading Concepts

What Reading and Writing Are For Imagine you are visiting in a kindergarten classroom. You have a chance to talk with ...

Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
The Five Essential Components of Reading

Reading with children and helping them practice specific reading components can dramatically improve their ability to ...

Source: EduGuide
Phonemic Awareness Contributes to Vocabulary and Fluency

Phonemic awareness is part of a chain of reading skills and abilities that contribute to fluent reading. Phonemic ...

Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Rhyme Awareness and Phonemic Awareness

The activities in this article develop rhyme awareness and the phonemic awareness skills of (1) identifying beginning ...

Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
How a Child Becomes a Reader: Birth through Preschool

Here are some proven, well-researched ideas from for parents to set the stage for children to become successful readers ...

Source: National Institute for Literacy
Reading Checkup for Babies and Toddlers

(Newborn to age 2) Source: Reading Checkup Guide: Helping Your Children Become Better Readers, Developed for "READ ...

Source: Reading Is Fundamental
Reading Checkup for Preschoolers

How is your children developing as a reader, and what can you do to help? Use these "checkups" to evaluate your child's ...

Source: Reading Is Fundamental
Reading Checkup for Soon-to-be-Readers

How is your child developing as a reader, and what can you do to help? Evaluate your child's progress through six ...

Source: Reading Is Fundamental
Reading Checkup for Developing Readers

Grades 2 and 3: How are your children developing as readers, and what can you do to help? Use RIF's series of Reading ...

Source: Reading Is Fundamental

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Recommendations for Fostering Phonemic Awareness

Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Kindergarten: Reading Milestones

Source: PBS Parents
Games and Exercises: Learning How to Use Context Clues

Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
The Words That Matter the Most

Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Information Used in Text Comprehension

Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Multiple Comprehension Strategies

Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Chall's Model of Reading Development

Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Child Development Tracker: Literacy From Age 3 to 4

Source: PBS Parents
What is Direct Instruction?

Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Recommendations to Foster Alphabet Knowledge

Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall

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