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You and Your Growing Reader.
Early literacy development is vital to a child’s success in school and beyond.
Even if you took to reading and writing naturally as a child, you shouldn’t
assume that your children will too. That is why it is important to nurture their
literacy skills and understand how the brain learns to read.
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Where Do I Start?
For the best start, parents should understand the five essential components
to reading instruction and how they best fit in each grade level. These
components include:
- Phonological Awareness
Phonological awareness The awareness that words are composed of sounds and those sounds have distinct articulatory features.
- Phonics
Phonics Phonics is the ability to recognize letter-sound relationships in words.
- Fluency
FluencyÌýFluency is the ability to read at an appropriate pace with accuracy and proper expression.
- Vocabulary
Vocabulary Vocabulary size and word-meaning strategies predict comprehension.
- Comprehension
Comprehension Understanding the meaning of text and integrating it with previous knowledge.
How Can I Help My Reader at Home?
Find more information below for age and grade level appropriate skills and
activities. We encourage parents to begin activities in the lower levels to help
analyze your child's development.
Pre-Kindergarten (Birth - 4 Years Old)
Phonological awareness is the foundation for learning to read. Phonological awareness skills begin to develop as a baby and throughout preschool beginning with the concept of a spoken word, recognizing and producing rhyme, and transitioning into syllable awareness around kindergarten. You can help your child develop these skills by making language a part of daily life.
Check out these Phonological Awareness Resources for parents of students in pre-kindergarten:
- Read to learn more about phonemic awarenessÌý
- Download to understand where your child is with their PA capabilities
- Check out to learn how you can utilize talking, reading, and singing to build your child’s reading skills
- Check out to learn more about Phonological Awareness: The Foundation of Learning to Read
- Learn more about how listening helps in your child’s learning process in
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Kindergarten - 2nd Grade (5 - 7 Years Old)
Once students enter kindergarten, they will move into more advanced phonological awareness skills and begin to be taught foundational phonics skills. ÌýSetting the foundation with phonological awareness and phonics will help children prepare for more advanced concepts helping them develop into fluent readers. ÌýFluency is the bridge to comprehension and typically develops around first grade. ÌýFluency can be practiced in several ways, including repeated readings, reader theaters, and decodable readers.
Check out these Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Fluency Resources for parents of students in kindergarten through second-grade:
- Download to understand where your child is with their PA capabilities
- Watch to understand the break down of the 5 components of reading
- Read more about phonics activities you can use at home in
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- Listen to the relationship between letters and their sounds in this
- Check out to practice CVC words
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- Help your child skills for writing
- Understand reading fluency and how to improve it in
- Learn more about ºÚÁÏÍø’s Comprehensive Orton-Gillingham+ Training
3rd Grade and Beyond (8+ Years Old)
Around 3rd grade, there is a shift from learning to read to reading to learn. While many students may begin to read more for pleasure at this point, comprehension can be significantly affected because of the lack of vocabulary knowledge. ÌýOver half of the words students will encounter in texts will be multisyllabic. ÌýIt is essential that students be taught prefixes, suffixes, and base words. ÌýCommon Latin and Greek bases can be introduced after that. ÌýBreaking words down to the smallest units of meaning, called morphemes can help students build understanding and increase comprehension.
Check out these Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension Resources for parents of students in third-grade and beyond:
- Understand reading fluency and how to improve it
- Learn how morphology helps with vocabulary in
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- Visit our resource site to learn more about dyslexia and resources to help you understand how your child may best learn to read.Ìý
- Learn more about ºÚÁÏÍø’s Morphology+ Training
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Steps for Parents of Struggling Readers
Ensure you are doing all that you can to help your struggling reader by taking the
below steps to address your child’s learning both at home and in the classroom
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1. Learn
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2. Check
Check , letter/sound knowledge, segmenting & blending, and phonics.
3. Communicate
Communicate any concerns you may have about your child’s reading with their teacher or principal.
4. Ask
Ask your child’s teacher if they are trained in and the ?
5. Inquire
Inquire about and materials you can be using at home to help with reading support.
6. Observe
Ask to sit in on your child’s reading lessons to understand how they best learn.
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