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 Early Reading and
Soccer
Being ready to learn to read is
like being ready to learn to play
soccer
 What skills do you need
to be ready to learn to
play soccer?
How to How to
kick? run?

Rules of the
Team
game!
work!
What Skills Do Children Need
to Be
Ready to Learn to Read
Vocabula Narrative
ry Skills
Print
Motivation
Print Letter
Awareness Knowledge
Phonological
Awareness
 Vocabular
y
Knowing the names of
things!
 Narrative Skills

Being able to describe things

and events and tell stories!
 Print
Awareness
Noticing the print in the
environment , Knowing to
handle a book and knowing
how to follow the words on a
page!
 Letter
Knowledge
Knowing that letters have
different shapes, Knowing
their names and sounds and
recognizing letters
everywhere.
 Phonological
Awareness
Being able to hear and play
with the smaller sounds in
words.
 How Can Early Reading
Skills Be Fostered?
Reading aloud using specific
techniques
Teaching children to spell their
names
Group singing
Rhyming games
Conversations
Re-telling of stories
Various other literacy activities
 The Early
Characteris Reader
Understandi Skill and
tics ngs an increasing
•Shows •Makesbehaviors
greater use of context
knowledge of print for prediction
conversions •Makes more accurate
•Associates sound predictions
with letter cluster •Uses letter-sound
as well as with relationships as a clue to
individuals letters meaning
•Accept miscues as a •Selects and integrates
part of striving to appropriate strategies more
get meaning frequently
•Understands the •Uses illustrations for checking
importance of self- rather that for predicting
monitoring to get •Reads on and rereads to
meaning regain meaning
•Knows that own real •Conforms by crosschecking to
and imaginary know items.
experience can •Chooses to read more
influence the frequently
meaning gained from •Copes with a greater variety
a book of genres and forms
•Increase a sight •Cope with more characters
vocabulary rapidly scene change and episodes
•Builds up pace
 What is Reading?

How children learn to read?

What is the importance of reading?

 Definition of
Reading
For many years, three basic definitions of reading have
driven literacy programs. According to the first
definition, learning to read means learning to
pronounce words. According to the second definition,
learning to read means learning to identify words and
get their meaning.

According to the third definition, learning to read

means learning to bring meaning to a text in order to
get meaning from it.
Researchers have found
that children gain the
skills necessary to read
and write during early
childhood.
At age 3 :

Children should be able to

use plural words, past tense,
and place articles (a, the) in
front of words .
At age 4 :

Children can categorize objects

(separate objects into different
categories through expression of
language). They are able to
associate a new word with its
4-5 year olds

Are able to understand the

concept of the story as well as
show storytelling skills. They can
express meaning, change their
minds, and change focus through
language
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Are You?
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frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can
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raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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What do you see here?