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How do we teach reading and writing?

Our vision for reading instruction involves: 

• phonemic awareness – understanding that speech is made up of words and sounds 

• phonics – knowledge of the letter–sound relationships and the ability to use these relationships to decode words 

• fluency – ability to read accurately and quickly to derive meaning from text 

• vocabulary – understanding word meanings in isolation and in context 

• comprehension – ability to understand and derive meaning from text.