Developing Literacy Skills

The science of reading provides evidence about what matters and what works in literacy instruction. Simply put, research shows that reading comprehension is the product of decoding skills and language comprehension. 

Students need to be taught decoding skills:

• phonological awareness (hearing individual sounds in a word, identifying rhyming words, identifying the number of syllables in a word)
• phonics (knowing letter of the alphabet and their corresponding sounds)
• fluency (They need to be able to read the words at a rate that will promote comprehension.)

Students also need language comprehension:

• vocabulary and language comprehension (definitions, prefixes, suffixes, etc.)
• text comprehension 

We are working on all these skills in class, and as a result, the students are on their way to becoming independent readers. 

 Happy Reading!