literacy skills
Ability to read
Literacy skills are the abilities involved in reading and writing—decoding text, comprehending meaning, and expressing ideas in written form.
The term often appears in educational contexts: The program focuses on building early literacy skills.
Extended uses include competencies in specific domains: digital literacy skills, financial literacy skills.
- sentence structureWord arrangement in clauses
- reading levelText difficulty rating
- decodingExtracting meaning from symbols
- word recognitionIdentifying written symbols as language
- comprehensionMental understanding of meaning
textual analysis · spelling · vocabulary · phonics · grammar · handwriting · rhetorical strategies · language acquisition · reading fluency · intertextuality · workplace communication · form filling · morphology · penmanship · paragraphs · written expression · cursive · sounding
- reading skillsvocabulary, decoding, grammar, fluency, comprehension
- language educationbilingual, language teaching, biliteracy, language learning, immersion
- Elementary Teachinglesson plans, classroom management, phonics, sight words, reading groups
- reading educationreading, vocabulary, spelling, phonics, comprehension
- reading supportdyslexia support, phonics instruction, reading fluency, reading programs, phonics
- school readinesskindergarten, kindergarten screening, preschool readiness, readiness, school readiness