Childrens Reading Development Presented by Whitley Starnes Lydia
Children’s Reading Development Presented by: Whitley Starnes Lydia Bolls Jessica Fisk
Your Reading Experience · What is your earliest memory of learning to read? · What did you already know before you started school? · How do you think children learn to read?
Stages of Reading Development 14 -18 Multiple Viewpoints Learning the New Confirmation, Fluency, and Ungluing of Print 9 -14 8 -9 yrs 6 -8 yrs Initial Reading or Decoding 0 -6 yrs Prereading
Prereading Stage · · · Birth – 6 Years Old Emergent Readers · pretend to read (uses pictures to tell story) Concepts About Print & Words: · book-orientation · does not differentiate between words and objects · can read environmental print · example:
Prereading Stage · By the end of this stage, most children know. . . · how to write their name. · the names of letters in the alphabet AND can identify most letters and a few words (CVC words ex. cat). · Some children at this stage know. . . · the sounds that letters make. · words stand for objects. · words carry meaning. · Beginning to understand literacy terms such as word, letter, sound, sentence. · Before entering the first grade, a child is exposed to approximately 6, 000 words through speaking and vocabulary.
Initial Reading & Decoding 6 -8 years old • Develop understanding of alphabetic principle • Learn the letters of the alphabet • Letters and the sounds they make • Knowledge of soundspelling relationships • Decode words • Example: Cat /c/ /a/ /t/
· · · Confirmation, Fluency, Ungluing from Print 8 -9 years old Further developing decoding skills · Additional strategies to decode words Start to make meaning from text End of Age Period · Developing fluency · Reading with expression · Sounds like talking
TRANSISITON · From “learning to read” to “reading to learn”
Learning the New 9 -14 years old · · · Purpose of reading is to obtain information and learn Texts (informational books) · Wide variety of genres Begin to analyze and criticize what they read
Multiple Viewpoints 14 -18 years old · · · Complex language & vocabulary Texts · Containing varying viewpoints · Required to analyze critically Use textbooks to learn information and complete homework
References · · · J. S. Chall. Stages of Reading Development. Mc. Graw-Hill. 1983 Chall's Six Stages of Reading Development: https: //sites. google. com/a/ghsvi. org/learning-resourcecenter/home/chall-s-six-stagesof-reading-development Tompkins, G. (2010). Literacy for the 21 st Century: A Balanced Approach (5 th ed. ). New Jersey: Allyn & Bacon.
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