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Category: Essential Reading Skills

The Essential Reading Skills Category contains all the different components of learning to read. Sometimes you need to focus on one specific area to improve overall reading abilities. The essential skills are: Phonemic Awareness; Alphabet Knowledge; Decoding Skills (Phonics); Sight Word Knowledge; Comprehension; Vocabulary; and Fluency. You will find posts in each of these subcategories.

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Teaching Children to Read in 5 Easy Steps

May 5, 2022March 25, 2023
Alphabet Knowledge,Blog Posts,Essential Reading Skills,Learn How to Read,Phonics

You can teach your child to read using four consonants ( m, p, s, t) and one vowel (a). That's all you need!

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Reading Assessment Test

August 9, 2019March 28, 2023
Assessments,Essential Reading Skills,Reading Blocks

The Reading Assessment Test will help determine the reading level of the reader and appropriate material to use in teaching.

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Fry 100 Sight Word List for Kindergarten

March 23, 2019March 28, 2023
Essential Reading Skills,Post,Sight Words

Sight words are words that we see over and over in everything that we read. These words often do not sound out with phonics rules and it benefits the reader to just memorize them.

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Reading Fluency Activities that Work!

March 1, 2018March 25, 2023
Essential Reading Skills,Fluency Strategies

These are 8 of the best Reading Fluency Activites I used as a Reading Specialist. I used these activities over and over to improve skills and have fun doing it.

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Quick and Easy Phonemic Awareness Test

February 27, 2018March 29, 2023
Assessments,Essential Reading Skills,Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic Awareness Test A Phonemic Awareness test will give you crucial information concerning a set of skills that are mandatory when learning to read.  Phonemic awareness skills are ...

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Reading Level Assessment for Reading Blocks

March 6, 2017March 29, 2023
Assessments,Essential Reading Skills,Phonics,Post

The Reading Level Assessment will assist the instructor in determining the skill level of the reader and will help to determine which block to start with.

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Reading Assessment Test

March 6, 2017March 29, 2023
Assessments,Essential Reading Skills,Post

A reading assessment test can be completed to find out what skills an individual already knows concerning reading prior to beginning a reading program.

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Learn How to Read in Preschool

January 18, 2017March 28, 2023
Blog Posts,Essential Reading Skills,Learn How to Read,Post

Child Must Be Interested First A child that is interested in learning how to read can definitely learn how to read in preschool. The key idea to note here ...

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Top 10 Reading Games for Helping Kids Learn How to Read

May 28, 2016March 29, 2023
Blog Posts,Essential Reading Skills,Learn How to Read,Post

Top 10 Reading Games for Helping Kids Learn How to Read Everyone knows that kids need to read to succeed. The Top Ten Reading Games for Helping Kids ...

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Learning How to Read

April 12, 2016March 29, 2023
Blog Posts,Essential Reading Skills,Learn How to Read,Post

Congratulations!  Learning how to read is arguably one of the best gifts you can give to another person that will contribute to his experiencing a fulfilling and productive ...

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Welcome!

Hi, My name is Veronica McCarthy. I am a Reading Specialist who has taught reading in the school system as well as privately for over 25 years. I have 6 children and two of my daughters have dyslexia. This is what originally led me to all my research into how the brain learns to read. I have addressed the challenges of a struggling reader as a parent and as a teacher. This background has given me a unique knowledge base to use in guiding others to help children and adults overcome reading challenges and become successful, lifelong readers.

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