Milestones of Reading Development

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Milestones of Reading Development
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The Mystery of Reading The Magical Stage

• Logo reading
• asked to be read to
• preference in reading
• scribbling and drawing

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Look, Mom, Im ReadingThe Self-Concepting
Reading Stage

• Aware of printed language
• story by picture
• will complete patterned phrases
• Prephonemic
• What does this say?
• What did I write?
• Early Phonemic Stage

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Spanning the Gap The Bridging Stage

• Familiar words and letters in familiar contexts
  and books

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Blast Off! The Take-Off Stage

• Demonstrate emerging reading
• focus on text detail, loose fluency
• Transitional Stage
• inventive spelling - conventional spelling

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I Can Do It By Myself! The Independent Stage

• Reading is simultaneous use of
• what is printed is fact

Print clues
Background experiences
Knowledge
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Reaching the SummitThe Skilled Reader

• Lifelong
• removes from own experience to new experiences
• Conventional Spelling

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Reading DevelopmentChecklist

• Pages 62 - 63
• Now how do we teach reading?