Childrens

Reading
Development

Presented
by:
Whitley Starnes
Lydia Bolls
Jessica Fisk
 What is your earliest memory
of learning to read?
What did you already know
before you started school?
How do you think
children learn to read?
Stages of Reading Development

14-18

Multiple Viewpoints
9-14
Learning the New
8-9yrs
Confirmation, Fluency,
and Ungluing of Print
6-8yrs

Initial Reading or Decoding

0-6yrs

Prereading
 Prereading Stage

Birth 6 Years Old

Emergent Readers
pretend to read (uses
pictures to tell story)
Concepts About Print &
Words:
book-orientation
does not differentiate
between words and
objects
can read environmental
print
example:
 Prereading Stage

By the end of this stage, most

children know . . .
how to write their name.
the names of letters in the
alphabet AND can identify
most letters and a few words
(CVC words ex. cat).

Some children at this stage know .

..
the sounds that letters
make.
words stand for objects.
words carry meaning.

Beginning to understand literacy

terms such as word, letter, sound,
sentence.

Before entering the first grade, a

child is exposed to approximately
6,000 words through speaking and
vocabulary.
 Initial Reading & Decoding
6-8 years old
Develop understanding
of alphabetic principle
Learn the letters of the
alphabet
Letters and the sounds
they make

Knowledge of sound-
spelling relationships
Decode words
Example:
Cat /c/ /a/ /t/
 Confirmation, Fluency, Ungluing
from Print
8-9 years old
Further developing decoding
skills
Additional strategies to
decode words
Start to make meaning from
text
End of Age Period
Developing fluency
Reading with
expression
Sounds like talking
 TRANSISITON
From learning to read
to reading to learn
 Learning the New
9-14 years old
Purpose of reading is to obtain
information and learn
Texts (informational books)
Wide variety of genres
Begin to analyze and criticize
what they read
 Multiple Viewpoints
14-18 years old
Complex language &
vocabulary
Texts
Containing varying
viewpoints
Required to analyze
critically
Use textbooks to learn
information and complete
homework
 References

J.S. Chall. Stages of Reading

Development. McGraw-Hill.
1983
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Development:
https://sites.google.com/a/ghsvi
.org/learning-resource-
center/home/chall-s-six-stages-
of-reading-development
Tompkins, G. (2010). Literacy
for the 21st Century: A
Balanced Approach (5th ed.).
New Jersey: Allyn & Bacon.