Fl uency

Compreh ensi on

Fluency means reading text

with sufficient speed,
accuracy and expression to
support comprehension.

Reading comprehension is the

ability to make meaning requiring
specific skills and strategies,
vocabulary, background
knowledge and verbal reasoning
skills.

A great idea to help your children and

students with fluency is with flashcards!
For example, you can create a set of
flashcards with different words of
colors! Show your student the card and
they can read it aloud. This will help with
fluency and speed.
The following online game is a great tool
for children working on fluency. The
game is perfect for early learners who
need practice with silent "e" and sight
words. This reading game challenges
students to find the sentence that
matches each picture.

THE FI V E
COM PONENTS OF
LI TERA CY

The following website provides a

printable graphic organizer for students.
The graphic organizer will help students
identify the main idea of a story and the
details that support it. What's great
about this printable is that you can
customize it to your wants and needs!
https:/ / www.teachervision.com/
reading/ graphic-organizers/ 4
311.html

http://www.education.com/g
ame/silent-e-sentence
-match/

W h at ar e t h ey ?
Ther e ar e several dif f er ent f un and
innovat ive gam es and act ivit ies t o
play wit h your childr en and st udent s
t o help t each t hem about t he f ive
m ajor com ponent s of lit eracy, and
m any of t hem can be f ound online!
Let 's t ake a look at
com pr ehension, f luency,
vocabular y, phonem ic
awar eness, and phonics!

GWYNETH POWERS
SUNY Fredonia
powe2221@fredonia.edu

The following games

and activities are given
for students in Pre-K to
2nd grade.
http:/ / www.literacyhow.com/ our-model/
components-of-comprehensive-literacy-instruction/

V ocabul ary

Ph onemi c
A w areness
Phonemic awareness is the
awareness of and the ability to
manipulate the individual sounds
in spoken words.

Vocabulary is the body of

words and their meanings
that students must
understand to
comprehend text.
The PBS Kids website provides a
bunch of literacy interactive
games for children and students.
The following link provides a
vocabulary game for students in
which they will choose three
words that belong in each
category. The graphics and
sound effects make for a very
fun experience! Kids and parents
will love it!
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/flood.html

A big aspect of phonemic awareness

is rhyming! The Scholastic website
offers interactive games for children,
and the following game has children
find the word that rhymes with the
given word (pictures & words).
What's great about these type of
websites is that the instructions are
given through verbal spoken sound
effects, making it simple for children
to understand! Explore the website
for more fun games!
http://teacher.scholastic.com/
activities/bll/reggie/
index.htm

Ph oni cs
Phonics is the study and
use of sound/spelling
correspondences and
syllable patterns to help
students read certain
words.
This fun online PBS Kids game is
great for children identifying letter
sounds within a word. For this game,
children will pick a vowel, and then
find the words that have that vowel's
sound. This game is very interactive,
and children will love it!
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/
stacker.html