Stages of emergent reading:

• Listens
• Looks at the book’s illustrations while listening
• Talks about the illustrations
• Recognizes logos
• Pretends to read
• Memorizes test and pretends to read
• Recognizes some words in context

Reading mehtods:

• The Natural Approach
  Popular. Centers on the idea that a child can learn to read as he lean to talk, with adult attention and help with early skills.
• Language-Experience Approach
  Popular. Based on children’s language development and firsthand experiences, stressed on children’s interests, experiences and cognitive and social development.
• The Whole-Language Movement
  Offering children meaningful and functional literature in full texts rather than through worksheets or dittoed handouts
• Literature-based Learning Programs
  Teachers use this for reading instruction.
• Decoding-Phonetic-Reading Approach
  To read, children must know how to “decode”, able to pronounce the letter sequences they see on apage based on what they know about the link between spelling and sound.
• Look & Say Method
  Based on recognition and familiarization.