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The emerging pre-reader stage, also known as [[reading readiness]], usually lasts for the first five years of a child's life.<ref name="Wolf, 2007, 115-139">{{cite book |author1=Wolf, Maryanne |author2=Stoodley, Catherine J. |title=Proust and the squid: the story and science of the reading brain |publisher=Harper |___location=New York |year=2007 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/proustsquidstory00wolf/page/115 115–139] |isbn=978-0-06-018639-5 |oclc=471015779 |url=https://archive.org/details/proustsquidstory00wolf/page/115 }}</ref> Children typically speak their first few words before their first birthday.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theroadmap.ualberta.ca/vocalizings/parents/10-12|title=Handbook of Language and Literacy, Canadian Centre for Research on Literacy, University of Alberta, Canada}}</ref>

Reading to children helps them to develop their vocabulary, a love of reading, and [[phonemic awareness]], (the ability to hear and manipulate the individual sounds ([[phonemes]]) of oral language). And children will often "read" stories they have memorized. However, in the late 1990s United States' researchers found that the traditional way of reading to children made little difference in their later ability to read because children spend relatively little time actually looking at the text. Yet, theyin a shared reading program with four-year old children, teachers found that directing children's attention to the letters and words (e.g. verbally or pointing to the words) made a significant difference in early reading, spelling and comprehension.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/05/29/153927743/small-change-in-reading-to-preschoolers-can-help-disadvantaged-kids-catch-up|title=Small Change In Reading To Preschoolers Can Help Disadvantaged Kids Catch Up|agency=NPR|author=Alix Spegel|date=2012-05-29|access-date=2012-07-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Increasing Young Children's Contact With Print During Shared Reading: Longitudinal Effects on Literacy Achievement, 2012-04-17, 1467–8624.2012.01754.x|year=2012|doi=10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01754.x|pmid=22506889|last1=Piasta|first1=S. B.|last2=Justice|first2=L. M.|last3=McGinty|first3=A. S.|last4=Kaderavek|first4=J. N.|journal=Child Development|volume=83|issue=3|pages=810–20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.readingrockets.org/article/simple-yet-powerful-things-do-while-reading-aloud|title=Simple Yet Powerful Things to Do While Reading Aloud, Reading Rockets}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://theroadmap.ualberta.ca/readings/parents/49-60|title=Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network, Handbook 0 to 60 Months}}</ref>

===Novice reader - 6 to 7 years old===