What is Reading?

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What is Reading?

• Ability to decode text
• Ability to comprehend language

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Decoding Text

• Phonological awareness
• Phonemic awareness

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Can you read this?

• ?? ??????? ?af? ??a p?d??e p??? ap? t??.

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Phonological awarenes

• Significance of print
• Rhythm and patterns of language
• Rhyme and syllables
• Early stages Nursery Rhymes
• clapping games
• songs
• stories
• Research now shows a link between rhythm
  awareness and reading success!

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Phoneme awareness

• Letters represent sounds
• Words are made up of phonemes, or sounds

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Teaching phoneme awareness

• Synthetic phonics
• Spelling patterns
• Tricky words

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Can you read this?

• The num flobbits grump wiffly on the worp.
  Buppies, a swip od flobbit, also grump but ent
  wiffly. Buppies grump woffly.

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Language Comprehension

• Understanding that words have meaning spoken
• written
• In early stages talking
• exposure to print
• Later stages -
• Background knowledge

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Reading Tools

• Read the title
• Look at picture clues
• Look at the initial letter
• Sound it out (small words only)
• Split the word into syllables
• Think of word families
• Read on
• Read again
• Ask for help!

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Comprehension

• Getting the main idea
• Making inferences
• Noting details
• Using context clues

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Reading success

• Motivation
• Choice
• Evidence of progress
• Role models