In the article, the authors discuss how a failure to help children develop phonemic awareness can negatively impact their future success in reading skills. Due to the fact that children who fall behind in Kindergarten reading levels will typically stay behind, it is important for teachers to see this problem and properly address it. When I am a teacher, I will need to address the individual needs of my students in order to make sure each child receive early intervention if needed. Based on the information I gathered from the article, early intervention helps children have more reading success in the future. While children are in my classroom, they need to have access to age and grade appropriate reading assistance in order to improve. Some
