Beginner, emergent and fluent readers
One of the most valuable skills one can acquired through life is the ability of self learning. The foundation of self learning is the ability to read independently and analytically.
Most children do not just start reading overnight, it’s a gradual process as they acquire certain set of skill. These skills include:
(1) Symbolic representations
-Understanding that marks on a page represent letters and words
(2) Phonemic awareness
-understand that words are made up of smaller sounds which are called phonograms
(3)Vocabulary development
- have a large pool of words and know how to use them
Reading aloud to your child at home is the best thing you can do to help him or her learn to read independently. You need to read to your child as often as possible, even though he might read independently yet. Once children have acquired the above skills, they will sooner or later burst into reading and develop from an emergent reader to be a fluent reader who can read independently.
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