Reading Development

Reading Development

1. LOOK AND SAY APPROACH

   • Encourages readers to identify familiar words as a whole in order to read them

2. CHALL'S STAGES OF READING DEVELOPMENT

   • 1. (Up to 6 years): Pre-reading: Children are still read to by caregivers, may identify some letters of the alphabet and may pretend to read or turn pages.
   • 2. (6-7 years): Initial reading and decoding: Children may begin to decode words to read and understand texts. May identify familiar whole words or recognise letters and blend sounds together to sound out the words
   • 3. (7-8 years): Confirmation and Fluency: Reading will have become a faster process. Able to decode words more readily and become more fluent when reading. A greater sense of the text will be emerging.
   • 4. (9-13 years): Reading for Learning: Students now read in order to learn. May be accessing a wider range of texts and reading to obtain facts and scanning for the most relevant details.
   • 5. (14-18 years): Multiple Viewpoints: Students will begin to recognise how meaning can be conveyed in different ways, or with a different focus. As a result, they will become more critical readers, recognising bias and inference.
   • 6. (18+): Construction and Reconstruction: Individuals can read a range of sources and synthesise these in order to develop their own interpretations. They can skim and scan efficiently and recognise what is and is not important to read.