Literacy
The ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, compute, and communicate using visual, audible, and digital materials across disciplines and in any context.
Reading
The process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language.*
Science of Reading
Informs educators about the critical components of reading and how to teach them to provide the most effective assessment and instruction for all of our students
Phonemic Awareness
One of 5 essential components of reading instruction. The highest level of phonological awareness and is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken words.
Phonics
One of 5 essential components of reading instruction. The relationship between the sounds of spoken words and the individual letters or groups of letters that represent those sounds in written words.
Fluency
One of 5 essential components of reading instruction. The ability to read text with accuracy, expression, prosody, and comprehension.
Vocabulary
One of 5 essential components of reading instruction. The words we must know in order to communicate effectively.
Comprehension
One of 5 essential components of reading instruction. The ability to understand and gain meaning from what has been read.
