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Precursor skills
These are skills that are responsible for the acquisition of reading in children. They develop before the child actually begins learning to read. Precursor skills include, for example:
– Phonological awareness: refers to an individual’s awareness of the phonological structure, or Sound structure, of spoken words.
– Attention: the ability to concentrate sufficiently on a text.
– Linguistic short-term memory: the ability, for example, to remember at the end of a sentence how it started.