What is literacy?

Literacy is a tool used to meaningfully engage with society.

We use literacy to , , , and in an increasingly digital, text-mediated, information-rich, and fast-changing world.

"Literacy is the way that we interact with the world around us, how we shape it and are shaped by it. It is how we communicate with others via reading and writing, but also by speaking, listening, and creating. It is how we articulate our experience in the world and declare, 'We Are Here!'"

identify

understand

interpret

create

communicate

(National Council of Teachers of English, 2020)

Literacy is a fundamental human right.

SCIENCE OF
READING

The science of reading refers to a body of research from multiple disciplines,

including cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology, and education, that explores how

people learn to read, why some individuals struggle, and what teaching methods are most effective.

ACTIVE VIEW OF READING

REFERENCE SHEET

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

GUIDE BOOK

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Duke, N. K. & Cartwright, K. B. (2021)

ACTIVE SELF REGULATION

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UTK-5 PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

6-12 PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

METACOGNITION

: Readers are actively involved with the text, making predictions, asking questions, and relating the material to their own experiences.
: Effective readers use various strategies to understand text, such as summarizing, visualizing, and inferring.
: Readers keep track of their understanding, recognizing when they are confused and using strategies to clear up their confusion.

ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT

STRATEGIC PROCESSING

JENNIFER ORR, 2024, EYEWORDS

WORD RECOGNITION

is the ability to recognize a written word. This begins by attending to letter-sound correspondences, but with repeated practice, word recognition becomes automatic, and readers are able to recognize words without effort.

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WORD RECOGNITION

UTK-5 PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION

This component encompasses the , including vocabulary, sentence structure, and discourse. Language comprehension is a complex of higher level mental processes (and not just a single skill) that include , , , and .

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ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND LANGUAGE

THINKING

REASONING

IMAGINING

INTERPRETING

UTK-5 PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

BRIDGING PROCESSES

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UTK-5 PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

COMPONENTS OF READING THAT IMPACT BOTH WORD RECOGNITION AND LANGUAGE

Bridging processes are the

.

For example, a strong vocabulary certainly aids language comprehension, but it also improves the ability to recognize and pronounce unfamiliar words as they are being decoded, using phonics knowledge.
Similarly, fluency requires students to be both accurate and automatic with decoding and word recognition, but it also requires students to attend to meaning in order to read with the proper phrasing, prosody, and expression.