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= __Who is an Early Reader?__  =

2-7 years old
 * ==Age of Emergent Readers ==


 * ==﻿ Dictionary Definition of Emergent Readers ==

An emergent reader: has print awareness, reads in a left-to-right and top-to-bottom progression, uses some beginning and ending letter sounds, may tell the story from memory, may invent text, interprets/uses picture clues to help tell the story, is beginning to use high-frequency words.

Source: Penn State University Dictionary -Recognizing logographic symbols or environmental print such as the "golden arches" as representative of McDonald's. -Learning basic concepts about print, such as which way to hold a book, which way to read text or directionality, and that illustrations tell the story in pictures. -Learning vocabulary associated with everyday concepts such as seasons, people in the community, family, and occupations. -Difficulty with one to one correspondence of words such as knowing that that "My favorite color is purple" has five seperate words. -Incomplete knowledge of the alphabet in the beginning but learns letters and letter sounds in the end of this stage.
 * ==Characteristics of an Early Emergent Reader ==

-Sounding out of letter sounds -Using and blending sounds together to make a word. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Segmenting or breaking a part of words to find each individual sound. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Tracking or pointing of each word while reading short sentences. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Using sight words to supplement words that cannot be sounded out. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Learning vocabulary is used to name and describe words. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">-Comprehending text while being read to aloud.
 * ==<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Characteristics of an Emergent Reader ==

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Source: Special Connections by University of Kansas