The Roots of Reading

The Roots Ofreading. • Writing Is The Ability To Leave Information Through Symbols While Reading Is The Ability To Retrieve Information Previously Written. . • Writing Is Transcribing Words We Speak Into Understandable Symbols That We See.. • We Are Not Born Speaking But We Are Wired To Acquire The Speech That We Hear In A Relatively Short Time Flawlessly.. • We Have The Inherent Capacity To Form Concepts And Label Concepts With Words.. • Reading Is An Outgrowth Of Speaking. It Follows That To Be A Good Reader One Must Be A Fluent Speaker And Commands A Wide Range Of Vocabulary.. • Unlike Speaking We Need To Be Taught To Read And Write. We Build A Vocabulary Of Using Symbols To Represent The Sounds That Make Up Words. Similarly We Represent Auditory Signs With Visual Signs. These Signs Are Represented By The Letters Of The Alphabet. . • We Communicate Verbally Through Speaking And Listening.. • For Written Communication We Use Writing (Sending A Message) And Reading (Retrieving Message). The Method Of Representing Sounds That Make Up Words With Signs Is Called Phonics.. • Writing Is Simply Representing The Sounds (Letters) We Use In Saying A Word. Reading Is Retrieving The Message We Wrote.. • Analyzing The Sounds That Make Up A Word Is Called Decoding. Choosing Letters To Represent The Sounds Of The Word We Want To Say Is Encoding. Decoding And Encoding Are The Cornerstones Of Reading And Writing.. • At First The Process Of Decoding Is Slow But With Practice Automaticity Sets In And Decoding Is Faster. Decoding Then Is Reading.. • To Be An Effective Reader One Needs To Develop A Subset Of Skills As Follows: Phonemic Awareness Phonics Fluency Vocabulary Comprehension.