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Becoming a proficient reader holds endless possibilities for a child. These opportunties include long-term\u00a0academic achievement and educational opportunities, daily life<\/a>\u00a0and eventual workplace success \u2014 and the magic of being transported to the world of fantasy and mystery, limited only by the imagination.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a complex process that\u00a0unfolds gradually in recognizable stages<\/a>. Young learners must see and interact with combinations of letters and words thousands of times to support early reading fluency.<\/p>\n

A vast and deep vocabulary affords precision and nuance in making meaning of the world. Young children are ready and capable of learning complex vocabulary (words like \u201cconstruct,\u201d for example) required as a knowledge base for reading proficiency as they mature, especially if\u00a0taught strategically and explicitly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Early childhood instruction<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Early childhood instruction is critical to teach young children the crucial vocabulary they need from an early stage. This positions and better prepares them for the transition a few years ahead \u2014 from learning to read in the youngest grades, to reading to learn.<\/p>\n

Yet research suggests the effectiveness of literacy\u00a0instruction at the kindergarten level is mixed<\/a>\u00a0and uneven.<\/p>\n

Policymakers and school boards need to ensure educators are implementing best practices in literacy instruction. Families and caregivers also have key roles supporting children in learning words from a young age.<\/p>\n

Early stages of reading<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The early stages of learning to read, often described as\u00a0decoding (using knowledge of the relationship of letters to sounds)<\/a>, can\u00a0generally be attained by the vast majority of young learners by Grade 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is achieved through instruction in\u00a0phonemic awareness skills (noticing and working with specific sounds in spoken words)<\/a>,\u00a0phonics (sound-letter relationships)<\/a>\u00a0and sight word recognition \u2014 perhaps 400 literate words. These\u00a0include high-frequency words<\/a>\u00a0and some 200 additional content words relevant to children\u2019s cognitive and socio-developmental contexts such as \u201cfriend\u201d or \u201cneighbour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such words serve as the building blocks for automatizing these foundational skills.<\/p>\n

Grade 4: Pivotal time<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Grade 4 represents an enormous leap in literacy development because there\u2019s a shift from early literacy learning associated with narrative texts to academic literacy learning associated with expository (informational) genres. This shift is\u00a0accompanied by a high demand for \u201cacademic vocabulary.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0These words are more abstract, discipline-specific, technical,\u00a0idiomatic and<\/a>\u00a0often have Latin and Greek roots: the language of school and books.<\/p>\n

These words cannot be learned from mere exposure and incidental acquisition. They\u00a0must be taught<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Grade 4, academic vocabulary knowledge becomes the key predictor of whether young readers will be able to extract meaning from print on the page. Literacy researchers Jeanne S. Chall and Vicki A. Jacobs coined the\u00a0term \u201cthe Grade 4 slump\u201d to describe the phenomenon of reading failure<\/a>\u00a0among so many young learners at this pivotal point.<\/p>\n

Importance of early learning<\/h3>\n

Various other scholars similarly identify vocabulary knowledge in Grade 1 as the single factor that accounts for the large variance in reading outcomes: Vocabulary in Grade 1 is predictive of more than 30 per cent of\u00a0reading comprehension in Grade 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Far too many young children do not make the transition successfully from apparent success with limited vocabulary requirements associated with early literacy benchmarks and later, more complex reading comprehension and capabilities.<\/p>\n

Research from the United States\u00a0finds some 33 per cent of Grade 4 students are unable to read at the basic level<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Canada, Julia O\u2019Sullivan \u2014 a professor of health policy, management and evaluation \u2014 notes that\u00a0depending on the province<\/a>\u00a0or territory,\u00a0at least 20 per cent and up to 40 per cent of Grade 3 and 4<\/a>\u00a0students don\u2019t meet reading expectations.<\/p>\n

Mobilizing words<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Children who have the requisite vocabulary knowledge in their oral repertoire, estimated at some 9,000-word families by Grade 4 (run, runs, running, ran belong to one word family), must now marshal and mobilize these words \u2014\u00a0mostly acquired from early experiences before kindergarten<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are some ways parents and caregivers can help children grow their words.<\/p>\n

1) Have \u201cserve and return conversations\u201d with children.<\/strong>\u00a0Here, adults\u00a0consciously talk with<\/em> children, not to<\/em> them with the aim of amplifying<\/a>\u00a0and teaching language. This means adults take the time to help children find the words they may be seeking, introduce and talk about new words and echo back and affirm children\u2019s expanding vocabulary. How adults take turns speaking and the quality of vocabulary matters.<\/p>\n

2) Tactile experiences combined with talk.<\/strong>\u00a0Provide opportunities for children to have tactile experiences, manipulating objects through hands-on play and helping around the house, providing the words for these objects. This matters due to the \u201cbody object interaction<\/a>\u201d value of these words, meaning that children are sensory and social beings who learn and reconstruct\u00a0the external world into internal mental representations<\/a>\u00a0mediated through language.<\/p>\n

Through playing and working with their hands, supported through talk, children develop neurocircuity known as embodied cognition. Such adult talk\u00a0supports vocabulary learning<\/a>. This could take the form of diverse activities like playing with blocks, learning to use cooking utensils or tools or helping sort items in a shed.<\/p>\n

Digitally mediated simulations on a computer screen are no substitute for real world experiences and children\u2019s hands-on engagement with\u00a0print materials<\/a><\/p>\n

4) Provide meaningful contexts and words linked by their meanings.<\/strong>\u00a0Choose a familiar topic of interest to your child. For example, you might talk about\u00a0recycling to help youngsters learn words<\/a>\u00a0such as dispose, separate, prevent and produce. A child could be enlisted to help sort recycling items for the benefit of embodied cognition. Draw attention to new words, teach the meanings and provide playful opportunities to learn and practise using them.<\/p>\n

3) Reading aloud.<\/strong>\u00a0Reading to young children needs to be sustained into the upper elementary school years, and include expository texts, since children are not\u00a0yet able to independently expand<\/a>\u00a0their vocabulary development.<\/p>\n

5) Model and foster a love of reading and words.<\/strong>\u00a0A love of reading, books and curiosity and consciousness about words and their meanings<\/a>\u00a0matters. Subscribe to your local newspaper or magazines, take trips to the library and limit screen time.<\/p>\n

Early interventions for enhancing young children\u2019s vocabulary knowledge have the best chance of resetting the vocabulary trajectory and closing the vocabulary gap. These can shift yet be sustained over time to account for children\u2019s developmental learning needs. Waiting until Grade 4 is waiting too long.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Hetty Roessingh is Professor, Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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