5 STAGES OF LITERACY DEVELOPMENT Lisa Engle ENGED

5 STAGES OF LITERACY DEVELOPMENT Lisa Engle ENGED -370

Awareness & Exploration � � � Birth through Pre-School Years Foundation for reading and writing through exploration Curious about print & print related activities Logographic knowledge – recognize familiar object labels Take place in pretending to read Some letter and sound recognition

Experimental Reading and Writing � � � Kindergarten Advance to experiment with oral & written language Reflection of basic concepts of print � Left to right orientation � Top and bottom orientation Engage in sustained reading and writing Develop a stronger sense of letter and sound recognition Familiarity with rhyming and beginning writing of alphabet and high-frequency words

Early Reading and Writing � � � Early development – First grade Formalized instruction Reading � Simple stories � Read and retell � Predicting – comprehension strategy � Word id � Fluency � Writing � Previous experience, feelings, personal � Punctuation and capitalization

Transitional Reading and Writing � � � Second Grade Complexity to literary tasks Improved � Fluency � Cognitive and metacognitive strategies � Composition and comprehension � Ever increasing facility with reading and writing Word identification Sight word recognition Reading fluency Sustained silent reading Conventional spelling and proofreading

Independent & Productive Reading and Writing � � � Third grade Transition to lifelong readers & writers Refine Literacy Skills & Strategies Sophistication, audience, and purposes is evident in their reading and writing Reference Reading & Learning to Read, Enhanced Pearson � Jo Anne L. Vacca, Richard T. Vacca, Mary K. Gove, Linda C. Burkey, Lisa A. Lenhart, Christine A. Mc. Keon: Books. (2012).