May 4-10, 2015 is Children’s Book Week
Sara Gable, Ph.D., State Specialist & Associate Professor, Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, University of Missouri Extension
To promote young children’s delight in talking, listening, reading and writing, adults need to provide a variety of interesting language experiences. Children who have reading difficulties in the primary grades often had limited early literacy learning experiences.
Children with reading difficulties have:
- less letter knowledge
- less sensitivity to the notion that the sounds of speech are distinct from their meaning
- less familiarity with the basic purpose and mechanisms of reading
- poorer general language ability
Children who are skilled readers:
- understand the alphabet and letters
- use background knowledge and strategies to obtain meaning from print
- and can easily identify words and read fluently
Activities that prepare young children for learning to read emphasize…
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