Vickie Dawson
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These five concepts were identified as critical in a report of the National Reading Panel (2000): 

• Phonemic Awareness: The ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words. 
• Alphabetic Principle: The ability to associate sounds with letters and use these sounds to form words.
• Fluency with Text: The effortless, automatic ability to read words in connected text.
• Vocabulary: The ability to understand and use words to acquire and convey meaning.
• Comprehension: The complex cognitive process involving the interaction between reader and text to convey meaning.