That Man
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From Google Books: An older couple, while traveling in Florida during their retirement, discovers that a dangerous man is following them. ~~~ Education ? Teaching Methods & Materials ? Reading & Phonics, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics, Fiction / General, High interest-low vocabulary books, Juvenile Nonfiction / Reade...
MoreFrom Google Books: An older couple, while traveling in Florida during their retirement, discovers that a dangerous man is following them. ~~~ Education ? Teaching Methods & Materials ? Reading & Phonics, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics, Fiction / General, High interest-low vocabulary books, Juvenile Nonfiction / Readers / Beginner, Language Arts & Disciplines / General, Language Arts & Disciplines / Readers, Language Arts & Disciplines / Reading Skills, Readers for new literates, Reading (Adult education) ~~~ From Wikipedia: Literacy has been described as the ability to read for knowledge and write coherently and think critically about the written word. Literacy can also include the ability to understand all forms of communication, be it body language, pictures, video & sound (reading, speaking, listening and viewing). Evolving definitions of literacy often include all the symbol systems relevant to a particular community. Literacy encompasses a complex set of abilities to understand and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture for personal and community development. In a technological society, the concept of literacy is expanding to include the media and electronic text, in addition to alphabetic and number systems. These abilities vary in different social and cultural contexts according to need and demand. ~~~ Literacy represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from print. Key to all literacy is reading development, which involves a progression of skills that begins with the ability to understand spoken words and decode written words, and culminates in the deep understanding of text. Reading development involves a range of complex language underpinnings including awareness of speech sounds (phonology), spelling patterns (orthography), word meaning (semantics), grammar (syntax) and patterns of word formation (morphology), all of which provide a necessar...
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