COMPONENTS OF A BALANCED LITERACY "DIET":
| *motivation for literacy |
| *concepts of print |
| *word/world knowledge |
| *language development |
| *listening and thinking skills |
| *sight words |
| *phonemic awareness |
| *letter-sound connections |
| *letter formation |
| *spelling |
| *schema development |
| *real reading -fluency -text structures -comprehension strategies |
| *real writing -writing conventions -composition strategies -written language structures |