[PDF] 5 components of literacy

What are the 5 components of literacy?

Reading skills are built on five separate components: phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. These components work together to create strong, rich, and reliable reading abilities, but they’re often taught separately or in uneven distribution.

How can one improve fluency in reading?

Model it first to give students a clear idea. Choral reading: Read a short text aloud to your students, and then have them read it aloud in unison. Matching the flow and pace of the group develops fluency. Paired reading: Having children read aloud to one another encourages them to develop the expression and flow needed for fluency.

How can one develop better comprehension skills?

Vocabulary development and instruction play a critical role in comprehension. The National Reading Panel determined that young readers develop text comprehension through a variety of techniques, including answering questions (quizzes) and summarization (retelling the story).

What skills are essential for information literacy?

Phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, fluency, and print concepts are widely recognized as foundational reading skills. Phonemes, the smallest units making up spoken language, combine to form syllables and words.