My name is Ellen and I am a retired Fairfax County Highly Qualified Teacher who has been teaching for over 30 years in both private and public school settings. During these thirty years, I have also served as a private tutor and have worked with elementary, high school, adults, and special educatio... (read more)
...Structured Literacy utilizes a systematic, explicit, and cumulative direct instruction in two broad areas: word recognition (phonological awareness, decoding and sight recognition) and language comprehension (background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures, verbal reasoning, and literacy k... (read more)