REflection
Each component of Literacy is important. No component is more important than the other. If one of the pillars is weaker or lacking, then the reader will not be as effective. All components need to be strong in order for solid reading skills to develop. Quality teaching consists of all of the components taught every day.
Phonemic awareness lays the groundwork for learning to associate individual sounds with written letters—commonly known as phonics. Phonics strategies help students develop basic skills for decoding the words they read as well as spelling the words they write.
Spoken vocabulary plays an important role in word recognition. Beginning readers use their spoken vocabulary to recognize words that they encounter in print. When students “sound out” a written word, they try to connect that word to a word in their spoken vocabulary.
Comprehension is the purpose and the goal of reading, but comprehension depends on students being able to access the text, which can only happen after they have already mastered certain phonemic awareness and phonics skills.
Fluency strategies are important because they facilitate student comprehension of text.
All of the pillars continuously work together to aid children in becoming literate adults, and each role is necessary for teacher's to build reading lessons around.
When students can connect with what they’re reading, interact with it, and come away understanding it, they have achieved their goal—and so have we.
Phonemic awareness lays the groundwork for learning to associate individual sounds with written letters—commonly known as phonics. Phonics strategies help students develop basic skills for decoding the words they read as well as spelling the words they write.
Spoken vocabulary plays an important role in word recognition. Beginning readers use their spoken vocabulary to recognize words that they encounter in print. When students “sound out” a written word, they try to connect that word to a word in their spoken vocabulary.
Comprehension is the purpose and the goal of reading, but comprehension depends on students being able to access the text, which can only happen after they have already mastered certain phonemic awareness and phonics skills.
Fluency strategies are important because they facilitate student comprehension of text.
All of the pillars continuously work together to aid children in becoming literate adults, and each role is necessary for teacher's to build reading lessons around.
When students can connect with what they’re reading, interact with it, and come away understanding it, they have achieved their goal—and so have we.