Mindworks Learning Institute LLC

Can my child really become an early reader?

To become an Early Reader children must develop the necessary sub-skills. The Early Reader program fosters and builds these skills for reading in children ages 4 – 7 through a series of fun and engaging activities. Families are also guided in the activities and behaviors that foster early love of reading. 

What are the cognitive skills that children need for reading?
     Children need a number of cognitive skills to be successful readers. Cognitive skills are thinking tools used to complete a learning task.

1. Learn that letters are pictures of sounds.

2. Learn the correspondence between sounds and sound pictures.

3. Learn that spoken words are made up of sounds.

4. Learn that written words are sound pictures which
                                          represent the sounds in words.

5. Learn that sound pictures occur in a sequence from left to right.

6. Learn to segment the sounds in spoken words.

7. Learn to blend the sounds in words.