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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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Reading Assessment Test

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

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Early Reading Program

Give your child a head start in school that will last a lifetime with a great Early Reading Program! Learning…

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Fry 100 Sight Word List for Kindergarten

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!

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

Phonemic Awareness Test A Phonemic Awareness test will give you crucial information concerning a set of skills that are mandatory…

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Reading Comprehension Activities

Reading Comprehension Activities are specific activities designed to improve reading comprehension skills. Comprehension is the final goal of reading.

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How to Divide a Word Into Syllables

A syllable can be the whole word or just part of the word but must contain at least one vowel. Learn how to divide a word into syllables on this page.

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How to Help a Struggling Reader

  How to help a struggling reader is a puzzle with many pieces. Before the learning difference is addressed, a…

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Reading Games for Kids

Reading games for kids are the easiest way to  increase a child’s reading level. Everyone knows that kids need to…

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Blog Posts for Learning to Read

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Veronica McCarthy is a Certified Reading Specialist who has taught reading in the school system as well as privately for over 25 years. Parenting two children with dyslexia, McCarthy has addressed the challenges of a struggling reader as a parent as well.

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