Child Language Acquisition WRITTEN A* Notes

Reading is a shared process with adults. 

Often a child will associate this with their relaxed home and it builds relationships with those that read to them early on. 

Often these early books will introduce key concepts to the children such as colours and numbers. 

Children learn from an early age to associate the graphemes and the phonemes together. 

Grapheme: the letter or blend of letters that represents a sound (e.g. s or ch)

Phoneme: the sound of a letter or blend of letters within a word

number of stages the child progresses through to learn how to read

as they get older the child matures to want to read more and more 

pre-reading

initial reading and decoding 

confirmation and fluency

reading for learning 

multiple viewpoints 

construction and reconstruction