Reading+Development

//**Reading Development**//

__Babies and Toddlers.__

Reading books to babies and toddlers, which are illustrated with bright colours, has a massive impact on their learning development. We find that babies and toddlers thrive on bright colors and noises. Nursery rhymes and singing songs is a massive excitement. It is a great way for them to develop their own reading abilities. Remembering their favourite book or nursery rhyme and associating it with the illustrations further help in developing phonemic awareness and being able to read and pay attention to the text. __Early - emergent Book Reading.__

Picture books are a great way for children to start learning to read. They are able to tell a story be looking at a picture. They increasingly become aware of the print, thus helping their development. Early - emergent readers use multiple sources of information to go from story tellers to readers.

__Emergent Phase.__

Emergent Phase generally starts to take place at school. Children learn to read for meaning, paying attention to directionality. Word-to-word matching, reading known words, and looking for new ones, are all part of their development.

__Early Phase.__

Early Phase is an advancement of the emergent phase. The concepts of print include understanding what is a word and what a letter is, directionality and the terms used in explaining print, layout, and placement. This is done by slowly increasing the complexity of concepts in the texts, syntax, and vocabulary.

__Transitional Reading Development.__

Transitional reading development is moving towards becoming more fluent. Is has a wider range of problem-solving strategies.

__Extended Phase.__

Extended Phase encourages readers to derive information from multiple sources and to read fluently. At this stage they are given the option to read silently.