Five Elements of Reading

The five elements of reading are like a symphony. You need all components to make a beautiful sound.
Phonics like the string section, they are the largest body of the orchestra. It is perhaps the section that offers greatest range of expression. In essence, it is the foundation of the orchestra. Phonics encompasses reading and writing and it gives the student the ability to hear, identify and manipulate phonemes.

Fluency is like the woodwind section. What differentiates these instruments from other wind instruments is the way they produce their sound. Fluency is the way that you sound when you read. Fluent is flowing or moving smoothly through a piece of reading material.

Phonemic Awareness is like to brass section, a musician in this group uses their breath to produce sound. The mouthpiece helps to amplify the buzzing of the lips, which create sounds. Phonemic Awareness, you have to be aware of the sounds that you hear and pay attention of how your moth moves to make the particular sound.

Vocabulary is like the percussion family. A percussionist will usually play many different instruments in one piece of music. A reader needs to have a good vocabulary of many words to gain the main idea of what they are reading.

Comprehension is like keyboards in the orchestra. After a student reads something, it is important to understand and recall what they have read. You can still read and not have comprehension but there will be a huge part missing. Just like in a symphony, the keyboards play a big role. You can still have a symphony without the keyboards but the music will not be near as sweet. You can read without comprehension but the piece that you are reading will not be near as sweet