"The Fab-Five"

(according to the National Institute for Literacy)

 

 

1) Comprehension is:

-the reason for reading.

 

Comprehension is important because:

-it is the reason for reading.

 

2) Fluency is:

-The ability to read a text accurately and quickly.

 

Fluency is important because:

-it frees students to understand what they read.

 

3) Phonics Instruction:

-Helps children learn the relationships between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language.

 

Phonics instruction is important because:

-it leads to an understanding of the alphabetic principle-the relationship between written and spoken words.

 

4) Phonemic Awareness is:

-the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes-in spoken words.

 

Phonemic Awareness is important because:

-it improves childrens word reading and comprehension.

 

 

5) Vocabulary refers to:

-the words we must use to communicate effectively.

 

Vocabulary is important because:

-beginning readers use their oral vocabulary to make sense of the words they see in print and readers must know what words mean before they can understand what they read.

 

 

Work Cited

 

Armbruster, Bonnie B., Fran Lehr, and Jean Osborn.(2001).Put Reading First:The

Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read.Jessup:National

Institute for Literacy at ED Pubs.