Literacy

Shoot for the Stars Go to [] Find your name and enter your password. Then read or listen to books at your individual level. Answer questions about the stories you've read. Earn points to build a rocket! I'll be receiving a report on the number of books you've read each week! I can't wait to see your progress! **Happy Reading**

Literacy Instruction consists of 3 components:

//Skills:// Instruction of phonics, spelling, and penmanship

//Reading:// 5 components of reading​

**Phonemic awareness** is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in spoken words. Before children learn to read print, they need to become aware of how sounds in words work. They must understand that words are made up of speech sounds, or phonemes  written language and the individual sounds (phonemes) of spoken language. It teaches children to use these relationships to read and write words. Reading teachers and publishers of beginning reading instruction programs sometimes use different labels to describe these relationships, including graphophonemic relationships, letter-sound associations, and soundsymbol correspondences  they recognize words automatically. They group words quickly to gain meaning from what they read. Fluent readers read aloud effortlessly and with expression. Their reading sounds natural, as if they are speaking. Readers who have not yet developed fluency read slowly, word by word. Their oral reading is choppy and plodding.
 * Phonics instruction** teaches children the relationships between the letters (graphemes) of
 * Fluency** is the ability to read a text accurately and quickly. When fluent readers read silently,

refer to four types of vocabulary. Listening vocabulary —words we need to know to understand what we hear
 * Vocabulary** refers to words we must know to communicate effectively. Researchers often

Speaking vocabulary —words we use when we speak

Reading vocabulary —words we need to know to understand what we read

Writing vocabulary —words we use in writing

understand what they read, they are not really reading. As they read, good readers are both purposeful and active.
 * Comprehension** is the reason for reading. If readers can read the words but do not

//Writing:// First graders will be writing and publishing many Personal Narratives, How to Books, All About Books, & Poetry this year.

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