Did you know that the Essential Skills for reading have nothing to do with actual reading?

Did you know that the Essential Skills for reading have nothing to do with actual reading? 

Phonetic Segmenting is one of the essential pre-reading skills your child needs to master in order to read. This is another auditory skill that does not yet use letters or words. With phonetic segmenting a word is broken down into the number of phonemes (individual sounds) or syllables that is in the word. Place markers give the child a clue as to how many sounds are in a word. Remember, segmenting is not about spelling, the number of letters in a word, or about individual sounds because two or more letters can make their own sound. For example, the word “fish” would be broken down into 3 sounds: /f/ /i/ /sh/. A child that can segment, and knows his letter sounds, is ready to start reading words.