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Reading is not a natural process.  It must be developed.

Speech is at least 200,000 years old.  Reading is a recent invention at 4,000 years old.  Have you ever asked yourself;  "What skills are needed to effectively read and learn?".   Is reading a single skill?   The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, as well as others, have done extensive research on this topic.  Research tells us that reading and learning requires, not only a complex set of skills (Reading and Learning Skills), but that these skills must be highly integrated.

Although the development of reading skills vary in chronological age from child to child, children benefit from early learning.  In a percentage of the population, early learning is crucial.

Phonemic Awareness Benchmarks

A first to third grader should:

• Recognize and produce rhyming words
• Know what words can begin or end with the same sound
• Blend syllables or, or later, sounds to form a word
• Clap out the number of syllables in a word
• Delete a sound in a word to make a new word

Early Phonic Benchmarks

A first to third grader should:

• Read words never seen before by associating sounds with letters rather than reading only words memorized as wholes.
• Use invented spellings that represent the sounds in a word in the order they are heard.  This gradually gives way to standard spellings. ("dun" becomes "done").
• Finds reading a pleasurable challenge rather than a dreaded chore.