Reading

http://www.motherpedia.com.au/article/getting-your-child-reading

• Children use knowledge of oral language as starting point in learning to read
• Discovery: written language is different from speech
• Learn what written language looks like: each written word on the page corresponds to one spoken word (running finger along text, run out of words).
• Use knowledge from spoken language to construct meaning from written texts.
• Graphophonic knowledge: use knowledge of language to make predictions about the text as they read.
• Semantic grammatical knowledge: useful tool for working out how to pronounce words they can’t recognise by sight.
• Oral language: important tool for discussing, retelling, comparing, and responding to written texts.
• Talk is used to explore features and meanings of texts.
• Teachers model, demonstrate and guide students as they look at and read texts, explaining how texts work and how meanings are constructed. 

AusVELS (Level 1 English Curriculum): Manipulate sounds in spoken words including phoneme deletion and substitution (ACELA1457)

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Reference:

Winch, Gordon, and Marcelle Holliday. 2010. "Oral Language." In Literacy, by Gordon Winch, Rosemary R Johnston, Paul March, Lesley Ljungdahl and Marcelle Holliday, 50-62. Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press.