Comprehension

Comprehension is the ability to

understand what one is reading.
Students with the right
comprehension skills will be able
to make connections to stories
as they read.

Cloze Reading

The Five
Literacy
Components

Type the words into the given

story.
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/cloze.htm

An overview of the most

important literacy
components with related
activities to strengthen and
develop skills.

Amanda Destro
EDU 276
Spring 2015

Phonics
Phonics can be defined as the
method of teaching elementary
reading and spelling based on the
phonetic interpretation of ordinary
spelling.
Phonics creates skilled and fluent
readers.

Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear,
identify, and manipulate individual soundphonemes--in spoken words.
Phonemic Awareness is important for students
because:
It improves a childs comprehension skills

Fluency
With the proper fluency skills,
students can recognize words
without hassle.
Fluency is the ability to read
quickly and accurately with
expression and intonation.

The Frog Game

The Story Plant

Catch the letters in ABC order.

Grow your own story from the story

plant.

www.playkidsgames.com/games/frog/Flash/def
ault.htm

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/en
glish/storyplant.shtml

Vocabulary

It helps students learn to spell words properly

Students can recognize words with similar or
identical sounds

Orsons Farm Phonemic Activities

Choose blending, substitution, rhyming words,

Vocabulary helps students

understand terms so that they will
better understand topics.
A good vocabulary can increase skills
in both reading and writing for
students of all ages.

and other phonemic activities

Flood Vocab Game

http://www.professorgarfield.org/Phonemics/far
m3.html

Choose three words that belong in

the same category.
pbskids.org/lions/games/flood.htmlat
ch the letters in ABC order.

Contact Me

Amanda Destro
SUNY Fredonia
(716)-553-0786
Dest8658@fredonia.edu