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CVC Puzzles Short Vowel O

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  3 Types of readers in children Whether you are a parent or teacher, working with children and helping them learn to read is rewarding. I had the opportunity to teach 6 year olds this past year and I have observed that there are three types of students: strong readers, emerging readers and weak readers. Strong readers  have good phonemic awareness and are excellent decoders. (Please refer to my introduction to phonemic awareness and decoding words) Emerging readers  are on the way and are expanding their knowledge of phonics sounds and applying it to decode familiar and unfamiliar words. Weak readers  need frequent prompts for segmenting and blending the sounds together. In severe cases, they may even struggle to remember letters and consonant sounds. HOW DOES THE BRAIN PROCESS WORDS? ·           Through Phonological awareness (i.e learning the sounds of words) and orthography (spelling of words). Skilled readers were able to process the word by seeing the letters “chair” faster compa
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CVC Words Short Vowel A

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How do children learn to read? ·        Phonemic awareness is developing children’s ability to decode words. A child will learn to recognise letter sounds on print and see the relation to the sounds in speech. Teaching it requires a systematic and instructional approach. Thus, phonics is one recommended way to explicitly teach children to segment and sound the word. Children pick up the skill of reading through decoding words and reading comprehension. Decoding words is the ability to look and sound the alphabets when they are placed together in a word. This requires children to blend letter sounds and read words. Children who learn the sounds in words will be able to put these sounds together to blend words and read whole words.   ·        Reading is a mix of decoding words and reading comprehension Reading comprehension is understanding the meaning of written language. To improve reading comprehension requires expanding vocabulary knowledge and being familiar with gramm
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