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Instructor: Tom Steven
Lectures: 11
Quizzes: 3
Duration: 10 weeks

Tags: Android, JavaScript

Decoding: Decoding involves the ability to recognize and pronounce words accurately. It includes phonics, understanding letter-sound relationships, and sight word recognition. Proficient decoding skills enable readers to read fluently and effortlessly.
Vocabulary: Vocabulary knowledge is essential for comprehension. Readers need to understand the meanings of words encountered in texts to grasp the overall message. Building vocabulary through exposure to a wide range of words and contexts enhances reading comprehension.
Comprehension: Comprehension is the ultimate goal of reading. It involves understanding the meaning of the text, making connections between ideas, and drawing inferences based on the information presented. Comprehension skills include identifying main ideas, making predictions, summarizing, and evaluating the author’s purpose and perspective.
Fluency: Fluency refers to the ability to read smoothly, with appropriate speed, accuracy, and expression. Fluent readers recognize words automatically and can focus on understanding the text rather than decoding individual words. Fluency is developed through practice and exposure to a variety of texts.
Critical Thinking: Critical thinking skills are essential for analyzing and evaluating texts critically. Readers learn to assess the credibility of sources, identify biases, analyze arguments, and recognize rhetorical devices used by authors.
Active Engagement: Active engagement involves actively interacting with the text while reading. This includes asking questions, making predictions, visualizing, and monitoring comprehension. Active readers are more likely to retain information and make meaningful connections between concepts.
Reading Strategies: Readers employ various strategies to enhance comprehension and overcome challenges while reading. These strategies include previewing text, making predictions, summarizing, asking questions, making connections, and rereading for clarification.

Tom Steven

Data Scientist

I've spent the last few years teaching people to program at 2 different immersive bootcamps where I've helped hundreds of people become web developers and change their lives. My graduates work at companies like Google, Salesforce, and Square.