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    The document discusses literacy development for beginner students. It identifies five key components of effective literacy instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, fluency, and text comprehension. Over the next month, the Teacher's Corner will present instructional strategies and classroom activities to help students develop these skills. The skills include identifying sounds in words, understanding letter-sound relationships, reading fluently, learning word meanings, and comprehending text. Teachers must plan instruction addressing all five components to support students' literacy development.

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    The document discusses literacy development for beginner students. It identifies five key components of effective literacy instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, fluency, and text comprehension. Over the next month, the Teacher's Corner will present instructional strategies and classroom activities to help students develop these skills. The skills include identifying sounds in words, understanding letter-sound relationships, reading fluently, learning word meanings, and comprehending text. Teachers must plan instruction addressing all five components to support students' literacy development.

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    TEACHER’S CORNER – AUGUST 2018

    LITERACY DEVELOPMENT FOR TRUE BEGINNERS


    The term literacy refers generally to a person’s ability to read and write. (Though literacy is also used more
    broadly for describing critical knowledge and productive ability in other things, such as financial literacy,
    media literacy, and cultural literacy, in this Teacher’s Corner, we’ll refer to reading and writing skills). When
    teaching beginner-level students, it is important to provide effective literacy instruction to ensure that
    students learn to read and write well. This month in the Teacher’s Corner, we will discuss five different
    components, or skills, that make up literacy. Each week, we will present different instructional strategies
    and classroom activities that help students develop these skills in meaningful ways.

    The National Reading Panel in the United States identified five key components of effective literacy
    instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, fluency, and text comprehension
    (2000). Each of these areas is defined below.

    Phonemic Awareness refers to the ability to understand that words are made up of sounds. More
    specifically, phonemic awareness includes identifying and manipulating sounds in words. For instance,
    when students hear the word bat, phonemic awareness allows them to break the word into its three
    phonemes, or sounds: /b/ /a/ /t/. Phonemic awareness skills would also allow students to swap out sounds
    in the word cat to form new words such as mat, cap, cut, etc.

    Phonics concerns the relationship between the sounds and written letters in a word. That is, when students
    hear a word, an understanding of phonics allows them to think about the letters used to spell it. Phonics
    also allows students to see a word in print and decode it based on their knowledge of letter-sound
    relationships.

    Fluency deals with a student’s ability to read text quickly and accurately. Fluent readers recognize words
    with automaticity; they do not struggle to sound out words while reading.

    Vocabulary Development supports students’ ability to recognize and recall the meaning of words they hear
    or see in print. Most vocabulary is learned indirectly through conversation and reading, but some words
    must be explicitly taught (Armbuster et al., 2006). Therefore, teachers must provide a vocabulary-rich
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    environment for students who are developing early literacy skills. While this certainly means teaching
    vocabulary directly, it also means giving students opportunities to interact in the language and to hear
    language through conversation or literature that is read aloud.

    Text Comprehension refers to readers’ ability to understand the content of what they are reading as they
    read it. Text comprehension includes skills such as setting a purpose before reading, asking oneself
    questions or summarizing during reading, and reflecting and synthesizing information after reading.
    Teaching students to use these reading behaviors can help students develop these skills and increase
    comprehension.

    To support students’ literacy development, teachers must plan thoughtful instruction that addresses each
    one of the elements defined above. This month’s activities can be used to help beginner-level students
    acquire the skills necessary to start reading or to continue developing their reading skills.

    References
    Armbuster, B., et al. (2006). Put reading first: the research building blocks for teaching children to read.
    Bethesda: The National Reading Panel and The Partnership for Reading.

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