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Overview of Approaches to Literacy
  --Oral Language
  --Prerequisite
     Literacy Skills
  --Reading: Word      Recognition
  --Fluency
  --Reading      Comprehension
  --Vocabulary      Development
  --Written Language

Differentiating Literacy Instruction for Culturally, Linguistically and Ability Diverse Students

Case Study

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Overview of Approaches to Literacy

Literacy involves a broad range of behaviors, skills and knowledge. While language development is a natural process occurring in almost all children, literacy does not typically develop by itself. Almost all children learn to speak and comprehend language, but few learn to read and write without explicit instruction.

Children with various kinds of disabilities may encounter difficulties in developing any one or a combination of literate behaviors, including:

Oral Language

Prerequisite Literacy Skills

Reading: Word Recognition

Fluency

Reading Comprehension

Vocabulary Development

Written Language

The sections above will help professional educators to attain an overview of each of these domains of literacy, the sub-skills children need to learn, and strategies for helping students with learning disabilities, such as developing phonological awareness, recognizing sight words, decoding, and reading strategies, to become competent and literate learners.

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