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What skills your child needs to become a great reader - Atlanta, GA ...

Most people are not fully aware of how they learned the most basic skills of life, because they occur when we are so young. Walking, tying shoes, and learn to read in this category for many. Or maybe you're one of those for whom reading was a struggle, and all you remember was the pain and embarrassment of not "doing" as other children. In any case, the process of how children learn to read, and what can go wrong is quite fuzzy for many adults.

I am going to try and clarify this process for those parents out there who want to start their children off on the right path to reading, and for those whose children are struggling with this seemingly simple task.

There are many things that happen before a child even picks up a book which prepare them for later reading success. The first skill, which they learn while they are still babies and toddlers, is speaking and listening to their native language .As they gradually acquire the vocabulary and move into speaking in sentences and phrases, they learn a lot about how language works and what sounds are considered useful or not useful in this language. When you read aloud to your child, they get a sense that books can tell stories. It is very important that children hear many kinds of stories read aloud. The rhymes are particularly useful because they help the child learn to hear the rhymes (words with similar endings but different onsets).This helps them to build what is called "phonemic awareness" and is an essential precursor to learning to read.

Another essential skill is phonemic awareness can break the sound in a word. Initially, a child will learn that different words begin with the same sound (cat, cow, kite) or end with the same sound (back, picnic), even before they realize that the letters "c" and "k" that sound.

They also begin to get an ear for the rhythms of language, we call syllables and accent. You can help them to clap to syllables, just as they would clap to the beat in a song, and this can be a good way to do both counting and reading skills at the same time (ask them, how many claps are in “book,” “bathtub,” “octopus,” “alligator?

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