Stage Skills Activities

Reading Readiness 1. develop his knowledge of the

English language so that he can
understand what he reads.
2. motivation to learn to read in
English
3. the ability to discriminate
between shapes so that he can
recognize letters and words
when he begin to learn to read
4. recognition that print has
meaning as just as talk has
meaning
Early Reading 1. language and comprehension 1. Recycling sight words
skills 2. Making pocket charts
2. Learning the print 3. Word attack using
conventions of English i. Using configuration
3. Word Recognition Skills clues
4. Sight word skills ii. Using picture clues
5. Word Attack skills iii. Using contextual
6. Phonemic approaches clues
7. The big book approaches iv. Using the dictionary
v. Using structural clues
4. Phonics approaches
i. Crosswords
ii. Ladders
5. Kamishibai

Developmental Reading 1. Recognizing structures, words 1. Reading aloud

2. predicting outcomes, 2. Reading-while-listening
guessing word meanings using 3. Play-reading
contextual clues 4. Choral reading
3. Applying a reading strategy to 5. Individual reading to the
the text teacher
4. Making connections within 6. Audience reading
the text
5. Thinking while reading
6. Having an affective reaction
to the text
7. Building up familiarity with
the many different kinds of texts
Mature Reading