http://www.cnkdigital.com/ - CNK Digital, creators of the award-winning ClickN KIDS Phonics program talks about the importance of literacy and reading for children. They also talk about the 5 essential early reading skills. A child's reading skills are important to their success in school and work. Reading can be a fun and imaginative activity that opens doors to all kinds of new worlds for them.

1. Empowering Parents. Inspiring kids.
Reading, Literacy and Your Child

2. Empowering Parents. Inspiring kids.
What is literacy?
Literacy means being able to
read and write.
Why is reading important
A child's reading skills are important to their success
in school and work. In addition, reading can be a fun
and imaginative activity for children, which opens
doors to all kinds of new worlds for them. Reading
and writing are important ways we use language to
communicate.
Literacy & Reading

3. Empowering Parents. Inspiring kids.
Research has identified FIVE early
reading skills that are all essential.
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Fluency (oral reading)

4. Empowering Parents. Inspiring kids.
Phonemic awareness
Being able to hear, identify, and play with individual sounds
(phonemes) in spoken words.

5. Empowering Parents. Inspiring kids.
Phonics
Being able to connect the letters of
written language with the sounds of
spoken language.

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Vocabulary
The words kids need to know to communicate
effectively.

7. Empowering Parents. Inspiring kids.
Reading
Comprehension
Being able to understand
and get meaning from what
has been read.

8. Empowering Parents. Inspiring kids.
Fluency (oral reading)
Being able to read text accurately and quickly.