Reading Readiness Skills
Skills that indicate whether a child is ready to learn to read include:
- Age-appropriate oral language development and vocabulary
- Appreciation of stories and books
- Phonemic awareness (ability to distinguish and manipulate individual sounds of language)
- Understanding of basic print concepts (for example, printed text represents spoken words; spaces between words are meaningful; pages written in English are read left to right starting at the top of the page; books have a title and an author, and so on).
- Understanding of the alphabetic principle (letters represent the sounds of language)
- Ability to distinguish shapes (visual discrimination)
- Ability to identify at least some letters of the alphabet.
Read more about this topic: Reading Readiness In The USA
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