Developmental Literacy Instruction with Struggling Readers Across Three Stages.

The article discusses three stages of literacy development to discuss key recommendations to teach struggling readers. The developmental skill of Concept of Word in text or COW, constitutes the difference in children who can and cannot acquire sight words and phonics. At the elementary level, children who understand a COW can fingerpoint read accurately to the words of a familiar, brief text they have memorized even when there are two-syllable words.