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Phonemic Awareness: Helping children examine and manipulate phonemes in syllables and words. Phonemic Awareness is one of the most important predictors of early reading success. |
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Phonics: The ability to identify that there is a relationship between the individual sounds (phonemes)of the spoken language and the letters (graphemes) of the written language. Decoding uses visual, syntactic or semantic cues to make meaning from words or sentences. |
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Vocabulary: The meaning and pronunciation of words that we use in communication or the number of words we understand or can actively use to listen, speak, read or write. |
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Fluency: The ability to read a text accurately, smoothly, quickly and with expression. |
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Comprehension: The core of reading achievement. Making meaning from words. To comprehend, a reader must have command of the linguistic structures, the ability to exercise metacognitive control and adequate background knowledge in the content and vocabulary presented. |
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Higher Order Literacy: Reading at the evaluation, synthesis, analysis, and interpretation levels. Processing information at the highest "thinking" levels. |
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