5 Essential Elements of Reading

1. 5 Essential Elements of Reading By Ophelia Williams EDUC 303.001

2. Essential Elements of Reading • In 2000, the National Reading Panel (NRP) issued a report that identified 5 areas that they found critical for effective reading instruction: • Phonemic Awareness • Phonics • Fluency • Vocabulary • Comprehension

3. Phonemic Awareness • The ability to notice, think about, identify, and work with the discrete sounds in spoken words. • Students practice by listening to poems, rhymes, stories with repetitive refrains, and language patterns. • Reading aloud to children and engaging them in word-play activities help to build phonemic awareness.

4. Phonics • Involves the relationship between letters and individual sounds, and helping children to recognize there are relationships between written letters and spoken words. • Magnetic letters are a great tool to teach children to recognize sound-spelling patterns

5. Fluency • The ability to read text with accuracy, appropriate rate, expression, and phrasing. • Take children to local libraries to encourage reading. • Fluency develops with practice – children become more fluent readers the more they read!

6. Vocabulary • Refers to the knowledge of words, their definitions, and context. • Children need good vocabulary skills to communicate effectively. • Children love games – play games to test their knowledge of different words. • Introduce new books to familiarize them with new and difficult words.

7. Comprehension • Refers to the ability to understand what one is reading. • Children with strong comprehension skills are able to relate the text they are reading to what they already know, while constructing new knowledge and understanding. • You can help improve comprehension skills by encouraging children to make predictions, ask questions, and form opinions while reading.

8. THE END • Brought to you by Ophelia Williams.