Learning to read is the process of acquiring the skills necessary for reading; that is, the ability to acquire meaning from print. Learning to read is paradoxical in some ways. For an adult who is a fairly good reader, reading seems like a simple, effortless and automatic skill[1] but the process builds on cognitive, linguistic, and social skills developed in the years before reading typically begins
Contents
- 1Writing systems
- 2Acquiring reading
- 2.1Age to introduce literacy learning
- 3Reading development
- 3.1Emerging pre-reader
- 3.2Novice reader
- 3.3Decoding reader
- 3.4Fluent, comprehending reader
- 3.5Expert reader
- 4Methods of teaching reading
- 4.1Alphabetic languages
- 4.2Logographic languages
- 5Skills required for proficient reading
- 6Reading difficulties
- 6.1Decoding
- 6.2Reading rate
- 6.3Reading fluency
- 6.4Reading comprehension
