Last term I had to take a reading course, which at first I thought was just going to be some liberal propaganda course they force you to take.  The class ended up being a really fun class for the most part.

The first few weeks of the class focused on what was literacy and how to help teach children how to read.  What the various stages in reading development and the different psychological approaches towards reading instruction.

One of the more intereasting things that we covered was something called the Framework for Reading Comprehension.  I went to the site that came up with this and took a little bit from there basically because people need to understand the various components that help establish literacy.

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The framework SEDL is using in its RCI work (see illustration, below) depicts the knowledge domains that a child must master to successfully learn to read English. The domains and their relationships are derived from cognitive research conducted over the last two decades which have been synthesized into a simple view of reading by Philip Gough and his colleagues at The University of Texas at Austin. At the apex of the framework is reading comprehension-the ability to construct meaning from printed text. Underlying reading comprehension are two equally important elements that research has demonstrated are essential to reading-the ability to understand language and the ability to decode the printed word. Children who have reading difficulties have been shown to have deficits in one or both of these areas. Both language comprehension and decoding are composed of a collection of more fundamental knowledge domains that have been shown to be essential to the successful acquisition of reading, such as having a rich and relevant vocabulary and grasping the alphabetic principle. Cognitive research has made important contributions to early literacy by establishing predictors of success and failure in reading and by reinforcing the need for early intervention for struggling readers.

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http://www.sedl.org/pubs/sedletter/v11n01/3.html

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As seen on lw there are many misconceptions about what literacy entails.  There are some people who even attempt to go as far as trying to say that literacy is only about spelling.

Last term I had to take a reading course, which at first I thought was just going to be some liberal propaganda course they force you to take.  The class ended up being a really fun class for the most part.

The first few weeks of the class focused on what was literacy and how to help teach children how to read.  What the various stages in reading development and the different psychological approaches towards reading instruction.

One of the more intereasting things that we covered was something called the Framework for Reading Comprehension.  I went to the site that came up with this and took a little bit from there basically because people need to understand the various components that help establish literacy.

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The framework SEDL is using in its RCI work (see illustration, below) depicts the knowledge domains that a child must master to successfully learn to read English. The domains and their relationships are derived from cognitive research conducted over the last two decades which have been synthesized into a simple view of reading by Philip Gough and his colleagues at The University of Texas at Austin. At the apex of the framework is reading comprehension-the ability to construct meaning from printed text. Underlying reading comprehension are two equally important elements that research has demonstrated are essential to reading-the ability to understand language and the ability to decode the printed word. Children who have reading difficulties have been shown to have deficits in one or both of these areas. Both language comprehension and decoding are composed of a collection of more fundamental knowledge domains that have been shown to be essential to the successful acquisition of reading, such as having a rich and relevant vocabulary and grasping the alphabetic principle. Cognitive research has made important contributions to early literacy by establishing predictors of success and failure in reading and by reinforcing the need for early intervention for struggling readers.  

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http://www.sedl.org/pubs/sedletter/v11n01/3.html

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Since certified LW Intellectuals should be aware of what literacy actually entails, wouldn't this more effective if posted in a more active forum?

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Cruisin' down the street in my six-four;
Jockin' the bitches, slappin the hoes.

All of those things are very apparent in children who can't read well. My boyfriend can read perfectly fine... but he can't understand what he reads when he reads it. If someone were to read the piece outloud to him, he would get it in an instant. It's the reading and the decoding and the comprehension that gets him. It's the same way with my brother.

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Watch your broken dreams dance in and out of the beams of a neon moon.

It is sad to see how dramatically that the literacy rates have fallen, especially in the western world.  I thought that one of the things that supposedly made us more advanced to other parts of the world was things such as literacy and education in general.

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¡Vive la República de Tejas! ¡Libertad de los Estados Unidos de América! ¡Recuerden el Liberty y lo que los zionistas le hicieron!

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I think that you just really have to give praise to UT for their work in producing this.  To be able to break down the various parts of literacy so that teachers, students and just people in general can focus on their weaknesses will help further literacy a great deal.

It is sad to see how dramatically that the literacy rates have fallen, especially in the western world.  I thought that one of the things that supposedly made us more advanced to other parts of the world was things such as literacy and education in general.

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The fact that the only thing that you can say about me is that you don't like my avatar because it is a Pokémon does nothing but further demonstrate your inferiority.  Though it is amusing that you make such a big deal out of just the avatar, wonder how you would have responded to my pervious names that you are too new to have ever encountered during the past nearly three and a half years...

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¡Vive la República de Tejas! ¡Libertad de los Estados Unidos de América! ¡Recuerden el Liberty y lo que los zionistas le hicieron!

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The domains and their relationships are derived from cognitive research conducted over the last two decades which have been synthesized into a simple view of reading by Philip Gough and his colleagues at The University of Texas at Austin.

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