Reading Worksheets

The Five Parts of Reading

Just because we can say words that are written on page aloud or properly pronunciate a paragraphs worth of information, this does not mean that you are a strong reader. There are a series of components that can be thought of that make an accomplished reader. Young readers that can process these skills well become strong assured fluent readers. Reading is rooted in phonics which is attributing sounds to written letters. This is the foundation of reading. In our staff’s opinion, we strongly believe that people that grow up on phonics become better lifelong spellers. We then take this foundation and build upon it by pivoting to mastering phonemes or units of sound. This helps us be able to breakdown and understand and pronounce words that are unfamiliar to us. This helps us build large vocabularies which we can build and use through speaking and listening. Once we have our sight words down and use these skills to be able to decode new words this ultimately leads to fluency. Once we achieve fluency, reading becomes much less of a task and it enables us to feel free to learn all types of new things. At this point we can focus on building our comprehension of what we read and the journey to accumulating knowledge becomes endless. We have explored how to improve the way we teach reading with our two articles:

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Reading Learning Centers Aid Skills

Alphabet Usage

We learn how to express and use the letters of the alphabet.

Beginnings and Endings of Words

We begin to breakdown words that are new to us.

Drawing Conclusions

We explore how to read into concepts that are presented to us.

Literary Terms

We explore elements of literature that make it impactful on readers.

Making Predictions

This is a core foundation of comprehension. As we begin to learn how to write our own thoughts.

Mood and Tone

Students begin to learn how to understand the attitude the author is trying to portray through their work.

Order of Events

Learn how to break down a story and put together elements of a well built story.

Phonics

In this section of our site we learn how to attach sounds to written words and phrases.

Picture Sentences

Students begin to put words and thoughts that are related to images.

Point of View

Students begin to analyze thoughts that go into writing pieces.

Reader Response

You are given a small segment that you are asked to build upon. These are like extended writing prompts.

Sight Words

We cover all aspects of the core and extended word carousel.

Suffixes

Learn how to identify them and use them to build new words.

Syllabication

Learn how to break syllables out of words and phrases.

Word Walls

A series of vocabulary words that we can use to build up our lexicon.