The Multifaceted Cognitive Process: The Reading Process

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The reading process is a multifaceted cognitive process. The process of learning how to read is divided in five important sections. These sections are: phonics, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension vocabulary and fluency. When students master these skills together they can learn how to read successfully. The development of phoneme awareness and phonics is important but not enough for learning to read properly. Students also need to learn how to sound out new words for beginning readers they need to learn syllable patters, roots of the word and whole words. Phonics should be the first step because students learn the connection between sounds and letters. Then, educators teach phonemic awareness which is connected to phonics because of