After reviewing the reading rockets website, I found that the 5 components of beginning English reading are phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, reading fluency, including oral reading skills and reading comprehension strategies. Beth Antunez, author of English Language Learners and the Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction, says using these 5 components teachers can really reach their students who struggle with English reading development. The first component of the 5 is phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate phonemes in spoken words says author Beth Antunez. One activity that I can incorporate in my classroom to teach phonemic awareness is by using word family charts.
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Author Bath Antunez defines reading comprehension as the culmination of all of the reading skills and the ultimate goal of learning to read. She said that the first 4 of the 5 beginning English reading components are in place to help lead students to comprehension. When a student has a strong understanding of reading comprehension, they have a strong sense of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development and reading fluency. There are several activities educators can use in their classrooms to help students advance their reading comprehension. These activities include answering explicit questions about text, using metacognition while reading and organizing their thoughts using graphic organizers. One activity I use in my classroom to help my students with their reading comprehension deals with organizing their thoughts about the text. Students are in charge of creating graphic organizers such as Venn diagrams, story maps or cause and effect charts to assist with their reading comprehension. As an educator I just want to teach my students how to think systematically and take steps to make sense of the text they are
Author Bath Antunez defines reading comprehension as the culmination of all of the reading skills and the ultimate goal of learning to read. She said that the first 4 of the 5 beginning English reading components are in place to help lead students to comprehension. When a student has a strong understanding of reading comprehension, they have a strong sense of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development and reading fluency. There are several activities educators can use in their classrooms to help students advance their reading comprehension. These activities include answering explicit questions about text, using metacognition while reading and organizing their thoughts using graphic organizers. One activity I use in my classroom to help my students with their reading comprehension deals with organizing their thoughts about the text. Students are in charge of creating graphic organizers such as Venn diagrams, story maps or cause and effect charts to assist with their reading comprehension. As an educator I just want to teach my students how to think systematically and take steps to make sense of the text they are