Early Childhood Education Substantially

Question: Discuss about the Early Childhood Education Substantially. Answer: Introduction The stages of Reading Development are known as a continuum that describes how students should progress as readers. According to Gehris et al., (2015), there are five stages of reading development and every child will move through each of the five stages at their own pace. Children or students should not be pushed through stages. It is highly important that one should master the previous stage before moving to the next. However, it is also seen that many learners are operating in more than one stage during their school years. The four stages of reading development will be discussed in this study. Pseudo Reading or Pre-reading This stage is for children who belong to ages between 6 months to 6 years. During this stage, students play reading, retells stories from films, prints own name, names alphabets and play with books and pencils. During this period, most of the children can comprehend picture books and stories read to them (Kampmann, 2013). By age 6, they can also understand at least thousand of words that they hear however, they can read few. In order to implement this phase among the students, teachers will have to share books with the students over and over along with extending stories, relating experiences to both print and pictures and guiding them to read. In This process, teachers can help the students to make prediction about what they are reading. Preliminary reading and decoding Children between ages 6 and 7 are guided in this phase to improve their reading skills. During this stage or at the end of this stage, students can read simple texts that contain high frequency words and phonically regular terms. They are also trained to understand relationship between letters and sounds along with the difference between printed words and spoken words. According to Nutbrown and Clough (2014), most children can understand more than 6,000 words at the end of this stage but can read near about 600. Teachers, during this stage will have to provide direct instructions while implementing practices in letter and sound affiliation. Teachers will also ask students to read simple stories in front of the class that will contain simple phonic patterns and high frequency words. Teachers must also guide the students so that they can read new words and ideas that will include advanced language patterns. Substantiation and Glibness Students between ages 7 and 8 will be trained within this stage of reading development process. At the end of this phase it is expected that students can read simple stories with better fluency. They are also expected to learn to combine decoding, sight terminology and meaning context to read stories and selections. They are also anticipated to understand 9,000 or more words in listening vocabulary (Campbell et al., 2014). Similar to phase 1, teachers are required to provide direct instructions in advanced decoding skills. Teachers will ask their students to read at levels above their own which will help the students to achieve all the expected outcomes of this phase. If students have mastered the phase 2, then teachers will ask them to read stories that contain higher fluency of words. Reading for learning the new Grades 4-8 This phase is suitable for the students between ages 9-13. In this stage students are guided to have a systematic study of words. Students are asked to read independently so that they can learn new ideas and can gather new knowledge (Schulz, 2015). In this stage the main focus of teachers is to provide new experience, feeling and attitude to the students. Teachers in this phase ask the students to read and study text books trade books, magazines, newspapers and stories. The motto behind this is to expose students to unfamiliar vocabulary and syntax. Reading development implementing strategy In order to implement these strategies in the classroom, it is highly necessary to model the methods for the students so that those methods can be executed properly. Teachers will have to praise and motivate participating students through regular monitoring. Below methods must be used by the teachers during each of the phases discussed above, A routine must be developed to help the students to understand the procedure step-by-step. Some things that teachers will decide must include whether the students will read aloud or not. Whether each student will read a paragraph or one student will read while others will listen (Maloney et al., 2015). Error correction methods should be used to support the students. Teachers can also experiment with paired reading by switching partners and group if students are reading in pairs. References Campbell, F., Conti, G., Heckman, J. 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