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Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers Reading Rockets is a national public media literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.

An informative illustration covering key concepts, assessment and instruction of literacy skills

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The requisite skills for literacy

A systematic and incremental phonics scope and sequence, like the one provided by Literacy Hub, offers a clear and concise example of how to teach phonics effectively.

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There are approximately 44 sounds that make up speech in the English language and thousands of spellings to represent them.

Being able to accurately segment spoken word into the smallest units of sound is indicative of future academic success. The awareness of these units of sound can be practiced frequently, long before children are even writing!

Once children are able to print, they can slowly be introduced to the most common acceptable spellings of the sounds and start spelling and reading, starting with CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words E.g. c-a-t, l-e-t, s-i-p, etc.

*Take note: annunciation, dialect and accent impact interpretation of sound-spelling relationships and should be accounted for during phonological instruction. Demonstrating and instructing proper mouth articulation for speech sounds is crucial to the success of literacy interventions in individuals that have speech challenges.

This is an example of phoneme segmentation. Being able to reduce words into the smallest units of sound is an important skill when reading and writing.

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One of the many requisite skills of literacy is phonological awareness.

Here's a good visual representation of component skills that determine phonological awareness.

Rhyming songs, tongue twisters with alliteration, clapping out syllables, and phoneme manipulation are fun and easy activities that cultivate the necessary skills for phonological awareness.

The road to literacy may not be smooth, but at least it's fun! Here's a map to help your child reach their destination.