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Welcome to the Comprehensive Literacy Toolkit! This site is designed to provide literacy instruction resources for future classrooms. You will find strategies, lessons, and tools to enhance literacy education here.
Stages of Reading Development
Stages of Reading Development
Emergent Literacy - occurs from birth to age 5
Early Reading - occurs from ages 5 to 7
Transitional Reading - occurs from ages 7 to 9
Fluent Reading - occurs from ages 9 to 15
Advanced Reading - occurs from age 15 and up
 These stages provide the framework for understanding how reading skills develop over time.
Emergent Literacy
Characteristics: Children begin to understand that written language has meaning and purpose.
Key Skills: Recognizing letters and their sounds, understanding that text is read left to right and top to bottom.
Example: A child can point to words in their favorite story and pretend/follow along to read.
Early Reading
Early Reading
Characteristics: Children begin to decode words and understand basic sentence structures.
Key Skills: decoding simple words and recognizing common sight words.
Example: A child can read a simple sentence like "The cat sat on the mat."
Transitional Reading
Transitional Reading
Characteristics: children read with greater fluency and comprehension
Key Skills: reading with increased speed and accuracy and using context clues to understand new words.
Example: A child can read a short chapter book and discuss the plot.
Fluent Reading
Fluent Reading
Characteristics: children can read smoothly plus understand and analyze more complex texts
Key Skills: reading with expression, understanding different genres, connecting text and life.
Example: A child can read and write a book report on a novel.
Advanced Reading
Advanced Reading
Characteristics: children can critically analyze and evaluate text.
Key Skills: understanding and using advanced vocabulary, engaging in discussions and debates about texts.
Example: A child can write an essay on the themes and symbols in a novel or classic piece of literature.
"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary." -Jim Rohn
About me
My name is Brittany. I work as a special education tutor at an elementary school and will primarily work with students in grades 3rd through 5th.
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