LE_W2_Mindset_LF_Sequence

Alongside phonics instruction, children learn sight words—high-frequency words that are memorized by sight rather than decoded. Sight words include common words like "the," "and," and "is."

As children progress in reading, they build their vocabulary by learning new words and their meanings. They also learn to understand the grammar and the ways sentences relate to each other.

Reading is a complex skill, which requires a lot of other skills that a person develops step-by-step.

Finally, when kids can read not only sentences but paragraphs and longer pieces of text, learners move on to develop complex comprehension skills, such as making connections, inferring, predicting, summarizing, and analyzing the text's main ideas and details.

Later on, children gradually understand that written language is made up of letters and learn names and shapes of these letters.

It's important to note that individual children may progress through these stages at different rates, but they all sooner or later cover these stages in this particular order.

Well before kids can read words, they learn phonics – combinations of different letters and the sounds they represent. For example, they learn that letters "a" and "u" together represent the sound [o:].

Before learning to read, children develop phonological awareness, which is the ability to recognize the sounds. Nursery rhymes and play helps children develop these skills.