Stages of Beginning REading

3. What does the
author trying to
imply?

4. Two Major Stages
Involves mastering the
sound structure of
spoken language,
understanding the
alphabetic principle,
decoding words, and
becoming fluent.
Learning to Read
Reading shift from trying to
decipher sound-symbol
relationships and decoding
words to comprehension,
understanding another or
multiple points of view
about a topic, and gaining
knowledge.
Reading to Learn

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6. The Emergent Pre-Reader
01

7. What can learner do at this stage?
Build oral language skills
• They learn word structures –
develops their phonological
awareness skills such as
recognizing phonemes, syllables,
and rhymes.
• Rhymes provides the foundation for
the development of phonological
awareness.

8. What can learner do at this stage?
Acquire some knowledge of print
• Name and recognizes the letters of
the alphabet
• Learn to print their names and
some letters that are not in their
names
• Can recognize some signs
• Beginning to grasp book handling
skills and print concepts
• Remember patterns in books and
uses them to read.

9. Important tips in this stage:
01
Provide books with
picture words
03
Sing nursery rhymes and
other children songs
02
Children need to be read to
by an adult
04
Provide a “print-rich
environment”

10. The Novice Reader
02

11. What can a learner do at this stage?
• Learn the relation between letters and sounds and
between printed and spoken words.
• Read simple text containing high frequency words and
phonically regular words
• Use emerging skills and insights to “sound out” new one-
syllable words.
Examples:
adding phonemes:‘r’ to ‘at’ to make rat
deleting phonemes: smile delete ‘s’ to make mile
substituting phonemes: run substituting ‘r’ with ‘b’ to
make bun
• Acquire a general understanding of spelling – sound
system

12. Important tips in this stage
Read simple stories using words
with phonic elements taught and
words of high frequency.
Read patterned predictable books.
Read books that are a level
above what they can read
independently to develop more
advance language patterns,
knowledge of new words and
ideas.

13. The Decoding Reader 03

14. What can a Learner do at this stage?
• Oral reading of stories
and passages becomes
fluent and sounds more
like talking.
• They can recognize
most words
automatically and read
passages with ease and
expressions.
Read simple, familiar
stories and selections
with increasing fluency.

15. Important tips for this stage
Have children read (with
instruction and
dependently) familiar,
interesting materials
which will help promote
more fluent reading.
Direct Instruction in
advanced decoding skills
Introduce children to
different kinds of reading
materials. It could be
books, comics, newspaper,
e-books, etc.
Expose children to different
types of reading materials

16. Important tips for this stage
• Engage in ample reading and
re-reading of books (oral &
silent reading)
• Allow children to read in pairs
or small groups.

17. The Fluent Comprehending Reader
04

18. What can a learner do at this stage?
• Important transitions takes place –
from “learning to read” to “reading to
learn”.
• Children read selections – from an
increasingly broad range of materials
and topics.
• Reading is used to learn new ideas,
gain new knowledge and experience
new feelings, to learn new attitudes.
• Growth in word meanings (vocabulary)
and background knowledge are
crucial.

19. Important tips for this stage
• Read and study of textbooks, reference
works, trade books, newspapers, and
magazines that contain new ideas and
values, unfamiliar vocabulary and syntax.
• Study words and reacting to the text
through discussion, answering questions,
writing, etc.
• Read increasingly more complex fiction,
biography, nonfiction, and the like.

20. The Expert Reader
05

21. What can a learner do at this stage?
● Reading from a wide range of advanced
materials, both expository and narrative, with
multiple viewpoints.
● Reading is used for one’s own needs
(professional or personal).
● Reading broadly across the disciplines,
including the physical, biological and social
sciences as well as humanities, politics and
current affairs.
● Reading serves to integrate one’s knowledge
with that of others to synthesize it and to
create new knowledge.
● Reading is rapid and efficient.

22. —Magda Gerber
“All children accomplish milestones in
their own way, in their own time.”

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REFERENCES:
https://www.theliteracybug.com/stages
https://www.theedadvocate.org/what-
are-the-five-stages-of-reading-
development/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stages-
reading-development-priya-garg/

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