Literacy

Our nation is failing in reading and writing, but you don’t have to…

• Literacy is the ability to read AND write.

According to Research Lab and The National Report Card, 27% of U.S. 12th grade students are proficient in writing; 37% in reading; and more than 50% of Americans between 16-74 read below a 6th grade level.
Reading disorders include deficits in word recognition, decoding, comprehension, listening, and may include labels such as reading comprehension disorder, dyslexia, or hyperlexia.
Writing disorders include deficits in process or product and are identified by labels such as dysgraphia, dysorthography or written language disorder.

• PEARL’s Process creates a personalized learning plan to analyze and improve your literacy skills.

Reading & Listening

When you read or listen, you are receiving and storing the information for future recall
If you struggle to understand what you hear or read, remembering and using information is going to be difficult.
Words may be in your listening vocabulary but not in you reading vocabulary so,
- When you read silently, you are confused, however,
- When you listen to a book on Audible, you understand.
Listening and Reading Comprehension demand BOTH complex language and executive functioning skills to attend, interpret, translate, analyze and store information
PEARL analyzes BOTH listening and reading comprehension to analyze your unique approach to decoding, interpreting, visualizing, clarifying, questioning, inferring, and predicting

Writing & Speaking

When you speak or write, you are expressing your knowledge in verbal or printed words
If your comprehension has gaps, your ability to write or talk about your understanding will be limited.
Words may be in your speaking vocabulary but not in your writing vocabulary so…
- When you write, you struggle to find the words, however,
- When you speak, you use the words fluently
PEARL analyzes BOTH oral and written language to identify your unique approach to recalling, selecting, planning, organizing and revising your response – oral or written.

Language

While students are expected to ace tests requiring fluent literacy, the language skills required to complete these tasks are not assessed or instructed explicitly.
Fluent literacy requires students to connect and use the three types of language and all subsystems fluently
- TYPES OF LANGUAGE
  - Receptive Language: the input of language through reading or listening
  - Expressive Language: the output of language through writing or speaking
  - Pragmatic Language: the selected use of language based on the situation or context
- SYSTEMS OF LANGUAGE
  - Phonology (system of sounds)
  - Morphology (system of word parts)
  - Syntax (system of word use)
  - Semantics (system of word meaning)