The basic nature of learning is linking new information to prior knowledge about the text. ... She laid the foundation for the techniques in detecting early reading and writing problems of children. ... Students are measured by letter identification, word test, concepts of print, writing vocabulary, hearing sounds in words and text reading level. ... During the lesson, the student is continually involved in holistic reading and writing. ... Clay urged that phonic instruction is unnecessary once the student acquires the ability to translate letters and letter patterns into phonological form...

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These skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing and viewing are used as the primary vehicle to obtain a certain language and to serve as a passage to encompass widely the interrelated realms of communication and global area. ... The learners' ability to speak is tremendous and his control in other areas of learning such as listening, reading and writing gives a clear denotation that he has the distinct chance of being a learner of a wonderful classroom teacher. ... Good reader is more probably perform well in school, understand and structured piece of writing, they have the ...

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This makes it very difficult to understand the concept of cognitive functioning, and to develop ways in which to measure it (Van Eeden & De Beer, 2005). ... There are three main types of approaches to studying intelligence; the psychometric approach deals with the structure of intelligence, the cognitive approach deals with the processes underlying cognitive functioning and the dynamic assessment approach deals with the measurement of learning potential (Tutorial Letter 103, PSY4988, 2011). 2. ... These results are used to support or adapt theories about the structure or nature of intellig...

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To contest concepts of the most effective way of diagnosing students, the experimenters completed an intervention study in which they "demonstrat[ed] that most children who perform poorly in reading can be readily brought to at least an average level of performance if their reading difficulties are addressed at the beginning stage of reading development" (Vellutinoa et.al., 1998). ... The program focused on the topics of: whole word identification, phoneme awareness and speech segmentation, functional use of the alphabetic principle, writing, use of diverse strategies for word identi...

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