Child Language Acquisition Reading

- Pseudo Reading/ Pre reading (up to 6): Children read to be caregiver, but maimmitate reading process. May identify some letters if the alphabet. 

- Initial Reading and decoding (6-7): Children begin decoding words to read and understand basic texts. May identify similar world or sounds and blend these together. Reading process slow. 

- Confirmation and Fluency (7-8): Children able to decode words qucker, able to read with fluency. 

- Reading got learning (9-13): Accessing a wider range of texts, reading to obtain facts whilst scanning for the most relevant details. 

- Multiple viewpoints (14-18): Begin to recognise how messages can be conveyed in different ways. Become critical readers, rcognising bias and inference

- Construction and Reconstruction (18+); They can read a range of sources and develop their own interpretation. Skim and scan efficiently, and recognise what is and isn't important to read

- Look and Say Approach = encourages reader to find familiar words as a whole in order to read them

- Phonic Approach = encourages reader to break down the wod into graphemes and sound them out to read the whole word accurately. 

Types of Phonics:

- Synthetic phonics = teaches children the individual phonemes separetely from reading, then they can blend these togetherto pronounce a word

- Analytic phonics = Encourages the breaking down of words into key sections without being taught the individual phonemes. 

- Encourages reading widely and often to feed pupils with imagination and increase their vocabulary. 

- By the end of primary education, they should be able to read with fluency and confidence. 

- Higher attainment which reading at home from an early age.