Pretend Reading: Pretend reading is the act of turning through the pages of a familiar book while retelling the events of the story. The student is not reading the words, but is using the pictures on each page to tell the story in his/her own words.
(https://wordstheirway842.weebly.com/emergent-stage.html)
Pretend Reading is important because it is one of the first steps of a child being interested in learning how to read. The child is familiarizing themselves with the literacy concepts of a book while also subconsciously learning how the plot of a story works. The child's creativity is also being sparked, making this a great time for parents and/or teachers to begin teaching the very basics of letter and sound relations.
Memory Reading: Memory reading is a more accurate reading of the text. The child points to the print and coordinates his/her spoken words with the words on the page. During this stage, children learn about directionality, or the left to right, top to bottom direction used for reading. (https://wordstheirway842.weebly.com/emergent-stage.html)
Memory reading is important because the child is mentally graduating from creating their own stories and beginning to understand that the words in the pages are significant and hold meaning. Literacy concepts are really being understood now which allows for more concentration to be directed towards expanding their knowledge of letter and sound relations. They are further on their way of becoming fluent readers.
Language Experience Approach: A whole language approach that promotes reading and writing through the use of personal experiences and oral language.
(https://www.theliteracybug.com/using-the-language-experience-approach)
The language experience approach is important because it is helping students to create a relationship between spoken words and visual, printed words. Written words are now being given direct meanings that are familiar and not alien-like to the child. This approach is teaching the child how to read and recognize words while also increasing the child's sense of fluency and comprehension.
Dialogic Reading: Dialogic reading is essentially a reading practice using picture books to enhance and improve literacy and language skills. The basis for this is asking simple questions and following up with expanded questions.
(http://dialogic-reading.blogspot.com/)
Dialogic reading is important because really helps improve a child's comprehension skills. Through the use of explaining how the pictures correspond with the text and asking the child a variety of different leveled questions, a deeper understanding is taking place. The words are becoming more significant for they represent what is happening in the pictures AND ultimately what is occurring in the story.
Interactive Reading Aloud: A literacy event whereby children actively engage in listening and talking about the text throughout the duration of the read-aloud. (https://www.kaplanco.com/blog/post/2015/02/19/Interactive-Read-Alouds-in-the-Classroom)
An interactive read aloud is important because it strays away from the act of children just mindlessly listening to a story being read to them. The children become involved and are asked questions and encouraged to discuss aloud different aspects of the story. This practice really increases the child's levels of comprehension and are not merely just a form of entertainment, but rather an educational opportunity.
Mock Linear: A characteristic of middle emergent spelling stage children in which they attempt to create cursive writing in the form of squiggly lines because they have seen an older person (such as a parent) write in a similar fashion.
Mock linear is important because it shows that the child is trying to write and are actively observing how their guardians write in an effort to do the same thing. It is a sign of effort and a telltale sign that the child has moved away from the early emergent stage of developmental spelling.
Alliteration: The repetition of a consonant letter sound at the beginning of words in a sentence.
Alliteration is important because it focuses on a specific phoneme which helps teach beginning readers certain sounds more easily. Alliteration can oftentimes be used in playful "tongue-twisters" which even further engages children and subconsciously stresses a sound and its corresponding letter to them.
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