1. Children’s Reading Development Presented by: Whitley Starnes
Lydia Bolls
Jessica Fisk

2. Your Reading Experience
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?

3. 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

4. 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:

5. 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.
Book-orientation: how to hold, turn pages, read left to right and from top to bottom of page

6. 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/

7. 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

8. TRANSISITON
From “learning to read” to “reading to learn”

9. 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

10. 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

11. References
J.S. Chall. Stages of Reading Development. McGraw-Hill. 1983
Chall's Six Stages of Reading Development:
Tompkins, G. (2010). Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach (5th ed.). New Jersey: Allyn & Bacon.