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Reading Skills Pyramid
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The Reading Skills Pyramid is a blueprint for the foundational reading skills that build upon each other when a child learns to read. It is essential to master the skills at the lower levels of the pyramid before moving forward to the upper more complex skills. For instance, a strong reader will have mastered sounding out words before reading fluently and then understanding a text.
1. Print Concepts: understands that print has meaning; reads text from left to right & top to bottom; handles a book correctly.
2. Phonological Awareness: recognizes & creates rhymes; recognizes & counts syllables; recognizes individual words.
3. Phonemic Awareness: recognizes, blends, segments & manipulates beginning, ending, & middle sounds in CVCs; differentiates between sounds.
4. Phonics & Decoding: names and sounds out ALL letters of the alphabet; connects letters/ letter combinations to sounds when reading (i.e. blending), & connects sounds to written letters/ letter combinations when writing (i.e. segmenting).
5. Fluency: reads CVCs and (known) high frequency or tricky words quickly.
6. Vocabulary: uses new words in speech & creates longer sentences when talking or writing.
7. Reading Comprehension: answers open-ended questions, such as who, what, why; makes predictions; summarizes; describes story elements.
Science of Reading
The SoR represents the extensive research that explains why the reading skills on the Reading Skills Pyramid are critical, and how they should be taught systematically and interdependently. Think of the Pyramid as a simplified map or model of what the SoR embodies. Structured Literacy curriculums and lessons are the vehicles for carrying out the SoR by weaving together the Pyramid skills. SoR embraces the concept that all of these skills are equally important when learning to read!
My TPT Kindergarten Literacy Printables & Resources
Include: photo picture cards that can be used in a variety of ways for helping students master foundational reading skills. Use them for interactive whole group activities, center activities, or small group instruction!
*Simply click on a resource image below, and you will be directed to the specific TPT page!
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