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What are the four theories of literacy development? ›

The major literacy theories are constructivist, sociocultural, and ecological theories. Constructivist and ecological theories are opposites in that they disagree on how parents and teachers influence learning, while sociocultural theory is something of a middle ground between the two.

The AIM Integrated Literacy Model includes six core components that correspond to Scarborough's Reading Rope (2001) and current best practices in training educators to effectively teach reading and improve student literacy outcomes.

These pillars include phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. Each component plays a crucial role in developing strong reading skills, and educators who understand and effectively teach these pillars are increasing the chances their students learn how to read proficiently.

This means that different languages should be explored in relation to one another, so too the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. It also means that learning about and through literature should be seen as contributing to all aspects of learning about languages.

WLA prioritizes teaching children to read whole words and make sense of their reading using their previous life experiences. The connections among words are valued over the letter sounds within those words. The whole language approach views reading and writing as social activities.

The five stages of literacy development are emergent literacy, alphabetic fluency, words and patterns, intermediate reading, and advanced reading.

The four blocks; guided reading, self-selected reading, writing and working with words, represent the four different approaches to teaching children to read.

Four main theories of development: modernization, dependency, world-systems, and globalization.

This section outlines the multiple competencies necessary for adolescent literacy—namely decoding skills (both phonics and phonemic awareness), fluency, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and motivation and engagement—and how each contributes to overall reading development (Buckingham, 2020; Cartwright & Duke, 2019).

Behavioral, cognitive, constructivist, social, and experiential learning theories are among psychology's best-known and most influential. These theories have influenced education, therapy, and parenting approaches.