EDU 371: Phonics Based Reading & Decoding week 2 assignment

STAGES OF READING DEVELOPMENT 2

The stage of reading development is a scale that illustrates how students progress as readers. Generally it refers to the different phases that a student passes before he actually becomes a good reader. There are different stages of reading development that help teachers to understand his student. The stages of development basically comprises of: Emergent readers; early readers; transitional readers and fluent readers. These are the basic stages that students pass through in the reading development.

Erick, a male student, in my elementary class, is an aspiring reader who has just began grasping the basic concepts of books and prints. Occasionally one sees him getting hold of alphabet and he has the ability to identify and name upper and lower case letters. He is also able to recognize phonemes, syllables and rhymes.

In his spoken and written languages he is slowly learning sound and symbol relationship commencing with consonants and short vowels. He also has the capability of reading consonant-vowel-consonants words and high frequency words. He is strongly enriched in books especially picture books and he enjoys that experience and he seems comfortable with the picture books.

Erick also has the ability to carefully control text in his reading. He also has the capability of identifying repetitive patterns in words. He also has a strong control of repeated vocabulary. In his writing, he has a wide letter spacing which makes him to have limited text on each page.

Work Cited:

Pacific education for resources and learning. (2012). Stages of reading development. Retrieved from

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/stages-reading-development

Rasinski T. & Padak N.D.(2013). From phonics to fluency: effective teaching of fluency and reading fluency in the elementary school. NJ: Pearson