Building+Blocks+of+Reading

 1. // Phonemic awareness instruction // to help children learn to segment speech into individual sounds (phonemes) and to blend sounds to form words. The ability to work with speech sounds in these ways is an essential foundation for phonics instruction.   2. // Phonics instruction //to teach children the relationships between sounds and letters.  Phonics skills help children recognize words and decode new written words to their spoken forms.
 * 5 Building Blocks of Reading **

3. // Fluency instruction //to help children learn to read text with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. Fluency is a critical component of learning to comprehend text.

4. // Vocabulary instruction //to increase the number of words for which children know the meanings. This includes helping children understand that a given word can have different meanings depending upon the context.

// 5. Text comprehension instruction // to help children develop purposeful and active strategies for understanding what they read. These strategies include monitoring children’s understandings as they read, generating and answering questions about the text, and summarizing important ideas from the text. 