Reflecting on developing literacy for early readers.
I have started to read a lot to support students that are early readers. One thing that I have learned is that exposing students to a variety of texts and strategies supports literacy development. Very important factors to supporting early readers are learning how students learn to read words. Information from Cain, K. (2010). Learning to read words. In K. Cain, Reading Development & Difficulties (Ch. 4, pp. 67-94). Toronto: Wiley. Sight word When a reader sees a familiar word on a page or a computer screen, a word that they have read several times previously, their memory for that word is activated. Phonological When readers see an unfamiliar word, they can try to read it by sounding out the individual letters and blending them Analogy To read by analogy, readers use information from similarly spelled words that they know in order to pronounce unfamiliar words, for example using knowledge about the pronunciation of a familiar word such as table to pr...