Beginning Reading

Reading Levels Knowing where your child is	Overview	How a Child Learns How to Read
Cueing Your Child When they come to a word they don't know	Overview	Frequently Asked Questions

Overview:

	A Balance of Reading Experiences
Reading To Children	Reading With Children	Reading By Children

Reading is a message-gaining process involving the reader and the text. Children learn to read by using their knowledge of phonics/ visual, meaning, and language structure cues, as well as background experiences to read.

How a Child Learns to Read:

Readers use three different sources of information or cueing systems: meaning cues, language structure cues, and phonics/ visual cues.