Learning to read is one of the most complex and most important of skills. This article and site is straightforward, good information for parents wanting to help their children learn to read, building skill upon skill for this most important of skills. Everything we do in life can depend upon reading so it is a skill that must be learned.
Key takeaways
- No matter what their age and background, a lot of students struggle with reading.
- Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify and manipulate the sounds of spoken language and to understand that words are made of sequences of phonemes, the smallest units of sound that make a difference in the meaning of words.
- Parents should help younger children practice the alphabet and teach them their name and other everyday words.
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