ORACY
ORACY
ORACY
Oracy- Express oneself and understand spoken language; If there is oracy, there is harmony.
Literacy
Pre-literacy skills
These are the foundational skills that children develop before they can read and write.
Emergent Literacy
This stage involves the development of skills that are precursors to reading and writing, like
recognizing print, understanding that words convey meaning, and enjoying books and stories.
children start to decode written language, recognize sight words, and attempt to write letters
or simple words.
Cognitive development
Communication
Social and emotional development
Life skills
Love for learning
Academic success
Decoding
The process of working out how to say (or how to begin sounding out) an unfamiliar written
word.
Phonemic Awareness
ability to hear, identify, manipulate, and substitute phonemes.
Phonics
ability to understand that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes.
Fluency
ability to read text accurately, quickly, and expressively, either to oneself or aloud.
Vocabulary
compilation of words that students understand and use in their conversation and recognize in
print.
Comprehension
ability to understand, remember, and make meaning of what has been read this is the purpose for
reading.
These activities can help with all areas of child's literacy development:
Talking and communicating with the child
reading books together
playing with rhyme and other sounds with the child