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Structured literacy is an approach to teaching literacy skills that involves the evidence-based teaching principles of explicit, systematic, cumulative, and diagnostic instruction. The evidence-based elements of structured literacy include phonology, sound-symbol relationships, syllables, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The evidence-based teaching principles and structured literacy elements create effective reading instruction.
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