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  1. Feb 2017
    1. Literacy

      literacy is a complex web of skills and knowledge related to engaging and expressing ideas—a web that, as mentioned in the introduction, serves as a foundation for all learning.

    2. No matter what grade level or subject matter you are assigned, your first order of business is becoming familiar with what you are responsible for teaching to your students. An excellent literacy teacher invests time learning what his or her students should be able to do by the end of the year so that the teacher can plan backwa

      It is imperative that instructors know the material front and back. You should be a subject matter expert.

  2. Jan 2017
    1. For example, students who encounter the word “ungrateful” will be able to decode it quickly if they can recognize the words’ three meaningful parts (its prefix, root, and suffix) and comprehend it easily if they understand the meaning of each part.

      Suffixes, roots and compound words are essential to learning comprehiensivness. While doing something the "ing" is added to the word so you know the action is happening while stating your sentence

    2. In Kindergarten, singing common songs, such as “Mary Had a Little Lamb” that encourage students to attend to sounds in words

      Songs with rhymes are easier to remember.

    3. to translate individual letters or various combinations thereof into speech sounds to identify and read words

      decode: to translate individual letters or various combinations thereof into speech sounds to identify and read words comprehension : the ability of understand something.

    4. iteracy is a complex web of skills and knowledge related to engaging and expressing ideas—a web that, as mentioned in the introduction, serves as a foundation for all learning.

      The ability to interpret the meaning of a certain subject.