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5 things you should know about Reading...
Reading is not Natural...
Language skills develop naturally, but reading skills do not. Think about how babies are able to commuicate their wants and needs, at such a young age, without direct instruction. Some students develop reading skills intuitively, but this is not the case for all learners. Reading is best developed using systematic, consistent, and explicit instruction (Reference: Reader Come Home, Maryanne Wolf [2018]).
Reading should be Explicitly and systematically Taught...
There are many quick fix programs out there that indicate they can "teach our children" to read. Be very caution of these programs. All children can benefit from reading instruction that is explicitly and systematically taught, by trained providers, and that focuses on more that just decoding and encoding skills. Reading instruction should be taught in a clear, step-by-step process with skills building upon each other and that should also include specific language skill development as well.
Skilled Reading is More than Decoding (sounding Out) and Encoding (Spelling) words...
Reading is more than decoding and encoding. Reading also includes vocabulary skills, language structure, verbal reasoning, literacy knowledge, background knowledge, phonological awareness, and sight recognition (Reference: The Reading Rope, Scarborough, H. S. [2001]. Connecting early language and literacy to later reading (dis)abilities: Evidence, theory, and practice. Handbook for research in early literacy, pp. 97–110). No wonder teaching reading is considered "rocket science!" (Reference: Moats, L. C. [2020]. Teaching Reading is Rocket Science, What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able To Do, American Federation of Teachers, pp. 1-28.)
"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."
-Winston Churchill
Language is the foundation of reading...
The foundation of reading is language. There are language skills that need to be appropriately developed in order for a young learner to become a skilled reader. Reading and language skill development have often been taught separately with no clear connection between the two. It is important to simultaneously work on language and reading skills, in the classroom and in individual sessions.
Articulation and Language Weakness are red flags for reading difficulties...
Since reading and language skill development go hand and hand, it is important to note that articulation (sound) errors and weaknesses in language skills (including vocabulary development, word retrieval, listening comprehension, grammar development, word meaning, sentence structure, and phonological awareness skills) are all red flags for possible reading difficulties. Identifying these weaknesses at an early age can help with early detection of reading difficulties and, ultimately, provide earlier opportunities for intervention.
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