Reading is the key to school success and it takes practice. A child learns to walk by practicing until he no longer has to think about how to put one foot in front of the other. A great athlete practices until he can play quickly, accurately, with out thinking. Tennis players call that "being in the zone". Educators call it "automatically".
A child learns to read by sounding out the letters and decoding the words. With practice, he stumbles less and less. Then automatically, he doesn’ t have to think about the meanings of the words, so he can concentrate on the meaning of the text.
It can begin as early as first grade. In a recent study of children in Illinois schools, Alan Rossman of Northwestern University found automatic readers in the first grade who were reading almost three times as fast as the other children and scoring twice as high on comprehension tests.
"It’ s not I. Q. but the amount of time a child
A. he can sound out the letters
B. he begins to understand the meanings of the words
C. he stumbles less and less
D. he doesn' t have to think about the meanings of the words
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