Stage 2: Confirmation and Fluency (ages 7-8)
Children learn to recognize words composed of increasingly complex phonic elements and read stories composed of increasingly complex words.
Through practice, oral reading of stories and passages becomes more fluent and sounds more like talking.
2. Encourage wide reading of stories and informational texts using instructional and independent level texts. This helps to build their knowledge.
3. Read to children at levels above their level. This helps to develop language, vocabulary and concepts.
Grades 2-3
Confirmation of what was learned in Stage 1 takes place and children learn to apply the knowledge gained in Stage 1 to read words and stories. Children learn to recognize words composed of increasingly complex phonic elements and read stories composed of increasingly complex words.
Through practice, oral reading of stories and passages becomes more fluent and sounds more like talking.
Strategies
1. Provide direct instruction in advanced decoding skills
2. Encourage wide reading of stories and informational texts using instructional and independent level texts. This helps to build their knowledge.
3. Read to children at levels above their level. This helps to develop language, vocabulary and concepts.
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- Stages 1 and 2 constitute a "learning to read stage," at the end of which children are no longer glued to the print on the page.
- They recognize most words automatically and read passages with ease and expression.
- Decoding the words on the page no longer consumes all of their cognitive attention; cognitive capacity is freed for processing meaning. At this point, children are ready to make the important transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn."
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