The 5 Components

Phonemic Awareness

• "The ability to notice, think about, and work with individual sounds in spoken words."
• Having phonemic awareness can make learning to read easier to students.
• Phonic awareness and phonics are not the same thing.

Phonics

• The relationship between letters and their sounds.
• Will help students recognize familiar words.
• Can help with spelling words by sounding out the letters.

Fluency

• "The ability to read a text accurately and quickly".
• Connects word recognition and comprehension.
• Fluency changes.

Vocabulary

• "The words we must know to communicate effectively".
• 4 types of vocabulary: Writing, speaking, listening, and reading.

Comprehension

• Understanding what they are reading.
• "Good readers can think actively as they read".
• Readers can make sense of the test by using thier experiences and vocabulary.