Early Childhood Students: Article Analysis

A question that should be asked often is what impact does reading comprehension have on early childhood students? Two articles pertaining to this question were Improving Reading in the Primary Grades by Duke, Neil K and Block, Meghan K from The Future of Children and Early Literacy Instruction in the Climate of No Child Left Behind by Margaret Taylor Stewart from The Reading Teacher. The first article deals with different approaches in order to better enhance children’s comprehension and reading skills. The article is broken down into six different recommendations for the improvement of reading such as promoting reading comprehension, comprehension strategies, promoting out of school reading activities, access to kindergarten, word-reading

Improving Reading in the Primary Grades goes into depth on how we can increase children’s reading skills by helping children sound out certain words, which makes them understand the word more. By doing this, children understand what letter represents which sound. If literacy is neglected from primary schools, the neglect continues as the child gets older advancing into higher grades. Vocabulary plays a major role in comprehension therefore if teacher’s neglect spending time on vocabulary, the chances of the child being able to grasp comprehension diminish. Early Literacy Instruction in the Climate of No Child Left Behind encompasses the concept of children striving for greatness. Teachers work to make students comprehend the material being presented to them. In order to make sure students are at grade level reading, reading programs for kindergarten through third grade has been developed. They are running to establish the concept of all students maintaining high-level education. Teachers ensure that the time they have with students is being used to its full capacity. Upon reading these articles, upcoming teachers are able to incorporate strategies in hopes of enhancing reading comprehension skills of