The basis of any academic success lies in literacy, and it should be understood that literacy is much more than words on a page. It is the combined skill of understanding, conveying and critical thinking by means of the written and spoken word. Literacy background is the best predictor of success in school for a child. This is the cornerstone that Kinder Ready Tutoring focuses on as we construct it on the floor. The philosophy of the Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready offers a consistent, stepwise, and evidence-based approach to literacy development, and young learners have a chance to acquire the necessary skills and confidence to become skilful readers, writers and thinkers.
The path to literacy starts way before a child gets to know the alphabet. It begins with phonological awareness and oral language development. The building blocks are the rich vocabulary and the possibility of hearing and manipulating the sounds in the words. The Kinder Ready Elizabeth Fraley method focuses on the use of immersive language experiences, which include conversation, read-alouds, and songs, as the means to the development of this auditory background. We train to recognise rhymes, syllables, and initial sounds, which is the core of the Kinder Ready Tutoring. This ear training cannot be compromised, and it is the direct preparation of the brain for the next step, phonics.
The gap between sounds and symbols lies in the Phonics and Print Awareness. The level entails direct instruction on the correlation between the letters (graphemes) and their sounds (phonemes). Children are taught to encode and decode words by combining sounds and separating words into sounds, respectively. At the same time, they become aware of print, the knowledge of how books function, how to follow a text left to right, and that print has meaning. It is taught through the Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready methodology, which is systematic, multi-sensory in way of bringing these abstract ideas to reality, before proceeding.
Real literacy, though, is described as understanding and fluidity. The result is not merely to pronounce words but to know and interact with their meaning. We construct meaning through teaching children to imagine, forecast, relate and inquire about a text. Fluency is the ability to read accurately, at a reasonable speed, and with expression, to free up cognitive resources to make sense of it. Kinder Ready Tutoring is a primary focus of this intensive, in-depth, strategic reading, which makes decoding actual literacy.
Literacy is a multifaceted skill that is composed of sequential and interrelated elements: oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. The Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready philosophy gives the professional a guide to this process. Through Kinder Ready Tutoring, families are sure that their child has been given the personalised, systematic training to learn each step and create an indestructible literacy foundation, one that will make them excel in all academic subjects and more.
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