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  2. US children are struggling with reading — and so are adults

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    Learning to read can become exponentially more difficult for older students and adults who have fallen behind, creating grave concerns as the number of individuals struggling with literacy into ...

  3. Reading readiness - Wikipedia

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    Reading readiness has been defined as the point at which a person is ready to learn to read and the time during which a person transitions from being a non-reader into a reader. Other terms for reading readiness include early literacy and emergent reading. Children begin to learn pre-reading skills at birth while they listen to the speech ...

  4. Literacy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Federal government responses to address the problems of struggling English language learners and overstretched teachers ensued from the 1960s. Head Start was created in 1964 for children and families living under the poverty line, to help prepare children under five for elementary school and to provide family support for health, nutrition, and ...

  5. English as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, a longitudinal study was conducted to examine the effects of the paired bilingual program and an English-only reading program with Spanish speaking English learners in order to increase students' English reading outcomes. [62] Students whose primary language was Spanish and were part of the ESL program were participants of this study.

  6. Adult education - Wikipedia

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    Exemplary situation – a workshop, the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) Annual Conference in Wellington, New Zealand in 2012. Adult education, distinct from child education, is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained educating activities in order to gain new knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values. [1]

  7. Language Experience Approach - Wikipedia

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    One of the main functions of teachers is to motivate and inspire their students. The language experience strategy can be used to teach reading and comprehension to older ESOL struggling readers, and students with special needs. LEA can be used with a small group of students or individual students.

  8. Sheltered instruction - Wikipedia

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    By sharing their experiences and working together on projects, they gain respect and empathy for each other's backgrounds, making the learning experience richer for everyone. [5] Finally, sheltered instruction helps English language learners improve their language skills in all subjects.

  9. Language-based learning disability - Wikipedia

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    Dyslexia is a common language-based learning disability. Dyslexia can affect reading fluency, decoding, reading comprehension, recall, writing, spelling, and sometimes speech and can exist along with other related disorders. [15] The greatest difficult those with the disorder have is with spoken and the written word.