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What is the Five Basic Reading Skills Framework?

The Five Basic Reading Skills Framework is our roadmap to becoming great readers. It focuses on five key areas: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension.

This framework will help you understand the essential skills your child needs to develop as a reader. A “framework” is like a roadmap or a guide that helps us organize and structure our approach to teaching and supporting reading skills. Each week, I will provide you with simple, fun activities and tips that you can use at home to reinforce what we are learning in class. These activities will be designed to fit into your daily routine and make reading a joyful experience for your child.

Phonemic Awareness

Activities for Teachers: Use songs, rhymes, and games to help students recognize and manipulate sounds in words.
Home Activities for Parents: Play sound games and read rhyming books together.
Support: Encourage your child to listen for and identify sounds in words.

Phonics

Instruction for Teachers: Implement systematic phonics instruction using letter-sound relationships.
Practice for Parents: Help your child practice letter-sound relationships with simple books and flashcards.
Engagement: Use magnetic letters and phonics apps to make learning fun.
Resources: Use phonics workbooks, flashcards, and interactive whiteboards.

Fluency

Practice for Teachers: Encourage repeated reading of familiar texts to build speed and accuracy.
Reading Time for Parents: Set aside daily reading time where your child reads aloud to you.
Encouragement: Praise your child’s efforts and progress to build confidence.
Tools: Use timed reading exercises and fluency charts.

Vocabulary

Strategies for Teachers: Introduce new words through read-alouds and thematic units.
Word Exposure for Parents: Introduce new words during everyday activities and conversations.
Interactive: Use picture books and storytelling to expand vocabulary.
Games: Incorporate vocabulary games and word walls in the classroom.

Comprehension

Techniques for Teachers: Teach comprehension strategies such as predicting, questioning, and summarizing.
Questions for Parents: Ask questions about the story to check understanding and encourage thinking.
Activities: Engage in activities like drawing scenes from the story or acting out parts.
Discussion: Facilitate group discussions and book talks to deepen understanding.

By following this framework, we can work together to support the development of essential reading skills in a structured and consistent manner.

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