The Big Five of Reading
Models of Leaning Styles
Emergent Reading
Phonemic Awareness Tasks
Phonological Awareness and the English Language
100

Teaches students to use the relationship between letters and sounds to translate printed text into pronunciation.

Phonics Instruction

100

Classifies children as learning via a specific mode or style (e.g., visual or auditory) and matched with more holistic or more phonics-oriented instruction.

Learning Style Model

100

The ability to understand that stories have a structure.

Story Sense

100

A teacher asking what the first sound in a word is. "What is the first sound in the word dog?" 

Isolating phonemes

100

The English language has this many sounds

44

200

The act of understanding and interpreting the information within a text. 

Reading Comprehension

200

Suggests that reading difficulties can be traced to an interaction between the student, the methods or materials used with students, and the broader context in which the student functions. 

Contextual Model

200

Words children recognize instantaneously in print. 

Sight Words

200

Asking a learner to mix the first sound of a word with another segment of a word.

Blending onsets/rimes

200

In this aspect of phonological awareness, sounds in words can be divided into units of varying sizes (syllables, onsets-rimes, phonemes)

Segmentation

300

Refers to word meanings and instruction about the teaching of word meanings.

Vocabulary

300

Suggests that reading consists of three separate components to place learners at to support reading instruction.

Cognitive Model

300

Attacking words by using the basic parts of the words.

Structural Analysis

300

Asking a learner to drop a sound from a familiar word

Deleting Phonemes

300

In this aspect of phonological awareness, words sound the same at the end. 

Rhymes

400

The ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds within words. 

Phonemic Awareness

400

Under this Cognitive Model pathway, part of the goal is to have students and instructors to understand the overall goal of reading and to provide strategies to read and comprehend language. 

Strategic Knowledge

400

Consists of all the words you have heard. 

Listening Vocabulary

400

Asking a student to break apart the number of phonemes in a particular word. 

Segmenting Words into Phonemes

400

In this aspect of phonological awareness, the component sounds in words (such as syllables, rimes, and phonemes) can be combined to form words.

Blending

500

The ability to read text aloud with accuracy, speed, and proper expression.

Oral Reading Fluency

500

Under the Cognitive Model, this pathway is said to be the foundational skill for being able to read fluently. 

Automatic Word Recognition

500

Information in the surrounding passages that help readers determine the meaning and pronunciation of words. 

Context Clues

500

Asking a student to change a sound in a familiar word with a different sound. 

Substituting Phonemes

500

In this aspect of phonological awareness, words begin with the same sound. 

Alliteration