The Essential Components of Reading
Read Naturally’s strategy and products support and reinforce the five essential components of reading, as outlined by the National Reading Panel:
- Phonemic Awareness
- Phonics
- Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension
Phonemic Awareness
Phonemes, the smallest units making up spoken language, combine to form syllables and words. Phonemic awareness refers to the student’s ability to focus on and manipulate these phonemes in spoken words. According to the National Reading Panel, teaching phonemic awareness to children significantly improves their reading ability.
Read Naturally Masters Edition: Phonics Series
Read Naturally Software Edition: Phonics Series (SE Stand-Alone or SE Network Plus)
Word Warm-ups
Group and Tutoring Edition (GATE)
Quick Phonics Screener (QPS)
Phonics
Phonics is the relationship between letters or word families, short vowels, long vowels, and letter combinations and the sounds they represent. As determined by National Reading Panel, phonics instruction helps early elementary students develop proficiency in decoding, spelling, and understanding words.
Read Naturally Masters Edition: Phonics Series
Read Naturally Software Edition: Phonics Series (SE Stand-Alone or SE Network Plus)
Word Warm-ups
Group and Tutoring Edition (GATE)
Quick Phonics Screener (QPS)
Fluency
Fluency is the ability to read as well as we speak and to make sense of the text without having to stop and decode each word. The National Reading Panel’s research findings concluded that guided, repeated oral reading significantly improves word recognition, reading fluency, and comprehension in students of all ages.
- Read Naturally Masters Edition
- Sequenced Series
Spanish Series
American Manners & Customs Series
Idioms Series
Multicultural Series - Read Naturally Software Edition (SE Stand-Alone or SE Network Plus)
- Sequenced Series
Spanish Series
American Manners & Customs Series
Idioms Series - One Minute Reader
Vocabulary
Vocabulary development is closely connected to comprehension. According to the National Reading Panel, students need to hear, read, understand, and use new vocabulary words in various contexts to build their comprehension levels. Repetition, aided by quizzes, glossaries, and crossword puzzles, is paramount to building vocabulary.
- Take Aim! at Vocabulary
- Read Naturally Masters Edition
- Sequenced Series
Spanish Series
American Manners & Customs Series
Idioms Series
Multicultural Series
Crosswords and Glossaries - Read Naturally Software Edition (SE Stand-Alone or SE Network Plus)
- Sequenced Series
Spanish Series
American Manners & Customs Series
Idioms Series
Crosswords
- One Minute Reader
Comprehension
Comprehension is the level of content understanding a student has after reading a passage. The National Reading Panel determined that young readers develop text comprehension through a variety of techniques, including answering questions (quizzes) and summarization (retelling the story).
- Read Naturally Masters Edition
- Sequenced Series
Spanish Series
American Manners & Customs Series
Idioms Series
Multicultural Series
- Read Naturally Software Edition (SE Stand-Alone or SE Network Plus)
- Sequenced Series
Spanish Series
American Manners & Customs Series
Idioms Series
- One Minute Reader