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Five Elements of Reading
How We Address the Five Essential Elements
There are many elements that make up effective reading and literacy instruction. Five of those essential elements are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The instructional core of the Literacy Collaborative model includes instructional approaches and activities that address these five elements both in reading instruction and writing instruction. Below is a link to a brief paper that describes how Literacy Collaborative’s instruction approaches accord with these five elements.
Other essential elements include a wide range of language and literacy experiences, access to literature, a print-rich classroom environment, instruction that builds motivation and interest in reading, and home-school literacy connections.