| the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in spoken words** | the relationships between the letters of written language and the individual sounds of spoken language, and the ability to use these relationships to read and write words** | the ability to read a text accurately and quickly** | the words we must know to communicate effectively** | understanding what is read or read to you; must be developed** | the act of creating written works |
**from Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read, from the Center for the Improvement of Reading of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA). It is available for download at the National Institute for Literacy web site.
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