Importance Of Reading Essentials

READING ESSENTIALS

CHELLYISS NETTLES

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA Reading Essentials

The importance of literacy helps students improve reading, learn to spell, write, and understand comprehensions skills and strategies. The National Reading Panel (2000) came up with an effective reading program to develop with reading and writing. There are five essential reading components to literacy. Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension are essential reading components. Teachers teach five essential components effectively through small group intervention, explicit instruction, orally reading practices, and activities. Phonemic Awareness is made up of many areas such as phonemes, graphemes, and phonics (Armbruster,

22). Fluency has four components: rate, automaticity or accuracy, phrasing, and comprehension. (DeVries, 2011, p. 259) Research demonstrates students reading passages repeatedly with a passage or small groups (Armbruster, Lehr, & Osborn, 2008). Readers begin to familiar themselves with words from reading passages. It helps students become a fluent reader. Teachers model how to read fluent student’s gain. As students begin to read silent or independent it will changes the self-esteem in being confident, think, and have less frequent errors. The student will begin to read alone without guidance and volunteer in reading sessions. It is three different levels of reading independent, instructional and frustration level text (Armbruster, Lehr, & Osborn, 2008, p. 27). Independent Level is an easy read for students with 95 % -100% (Armbruster, Lehr, & Osborn, 2008, p. 27). Instructional level text is moderate and challenging the reader to read more difficult words in passages (Armbruster, Lehr, & Osborn, 2008, p. 27). A reader will have 90% success in instructional level text (Armbruster, Lehr, & Osborn, 2008, p. 27). Record, check, chart is an activity students can work independently (DeVries, 2011, p. 272). The student will read a book into a recording device. While following the text from passage, the student listens to the recording and marks words said incorrectly

48). Comprehension explains the reason for reading (Armbruster, Lehr, & Osborn, 2008, p. 48). Text Comprehension helps children identify and improve the six strategies in reading text comprehension (Armbruster, Lehr, & Osborn, 2008, p. 49). Cooperative learning teaches students strategies to monitor understanding and reading comprehension skills. (Armbruster, Lehr, & Osborn, 2008, p. 54). Spin the discussion is an activity students can build comprehension and learn from each other to discuss books. (DeVries, 2011, p. 209). Students will retell words in your own words (DeVries, 2011). Describe your pet (DeVries, 2011, p. 209). Say what this book reminds you of (DeVries, 2011, p. 209). Finally add a new ending to the story you’ve read (DeVries, 2011, p. 209).

In conclusion, literacy focuses on the building blocks of vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, phonics, and phonemic awareness. Cooperative learning helps students become a better reader. In this research, there are many various ways to get a struggling reader to be fluent. The phonics and vocabulary practices give students many opportunities to get familiar with word parts, letter sounds, and repetition reading passages to form meaning of vocabulary words. Literacy is a major impact on students fostering reading and communicating with others in day-to-day