Theory & Research
Biliteracy Approaches
Ways of Experiencing Print
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View of reading that highlights the interaction between word recognition and reading comprehension, and the importance of active self-regulation and executive function skills to reading development.

What is the Active View of Reading?

100

These functions represent concepts, strategies and skills that are common to every language (social and pragmatic, semantic, syntactic, and orthographic/graphophonic functions.

What are the Four Universal Aspects of Literacy?

100

Way of experiencing print focused on finding patterns in words and understanding how words work.

What is the orthographic experience of print?

200

Language teaching approach that emphasizes from the beginning the comprehension of the meaning of texts. Focus of the Mexican national curriculum.

What is the communicative approach?

200

Approach that begins with the whole idea, thought,  or text, before moving to the parts. Bringing it back to the whole, helps maintain meaning.

What is the meaningful context approach?

200

Way of experiencing print centered on sight recognition.

What is the logographic experience of print?

300

What is known and understood in one language contributes to what is known and understood in the other.

What is Holistic Bilingualism?

300

Teaching strategy that balance between the student responsibility and the teacher scaffolding.

What is the gradual release approach?

300

Way of experiencing print focused on sound to letter – letter to sound correspondence.

What is the alphabetic experience of print?

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