1. What is an emergent reader? a beginning reader?

The term emergent reading is derived from emergent literacy and is used to
advocate that the development of reading starts early in a child’s life instead of
school years. The concept emergent reading emphasizes the developmental
continuum aspect in learning to read, rather than an all-or-none phenomenon that
begins only when a child starts school, suggesting there is a boundary between
reading and pre-reading. While beginning reader understands the concept of
word and also beginning to represent the first and maybe last sound of a word
when trying to spell.

2. Differentiate emergent and beginning reader using a table of comparison.

EMERGET READER BEGINNING READER

1. Emergent readers only need to be 1. Beginning readers need to learn

able to make predictions based on
stories read to them.
2. Emergent readers only need learn
how to identify the letters.
3. Emergent readers begin simple
phonemic awareness, the ability to
hear, identify, and manipulate the
sounds in words.
decoding and other word
identification strategies in order to
comprehend text.
2. Beginning readers need to associate
the letters with the sounds of the
language. They will typically write the
initial consonant, then the final
consonant, and add the vowel later.
3. Beginning readers use phonemic
awareness in order to blend
phonemes to make words, segment
phonemes to make words, and
other types of phoneme
manipulation.