Thursday, September 27, 2007

Importance of literacy

It is very hard to say which ability is more important than the other, since they are all connected in some way. Also these abilities depend on each other to develop. I believe that the connection between these abilities is more important than one of them by itself. In the case that an individual has an issue with one of these abilities, he or she has to find a way to connect the rest of them to become a successful reader.
I believe that the way a person connects all of these aspects is crucial for literacy. And just like people are unique in other things in life, people are also very unique in the way they work around their difficulties when it comes to being literate.

1 comment:

DrDana said...

I absolutely agree, Raul. These interconnections between vocabulary and comprehension, or decoding and fluency are central to how literacy works in the case of each child. But it is very hard to tease out exactly how the parts are working when interconnected -- something we need to continue to examine.