This article is about the city in Anoka County. For the unincorporated community named St. Francis in Stearns County, see St. Francis, Stearns County, Minnesota. St. Francis is a city in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 7,218 at the 2010 census. Minnesota State Highway 47 serves as a main route in the city.
Vocabulary is one of the most important literacy skills. Being able to read involves knowing thousands of words, and without this knowledge, following a story, whether it is fiction or nonfiction, is impossible.
(The Partnership for Reading, 2001) Phonological awareness skills and early reading abilities are highly correlated (van Kleeck, Gilliam, & McFadden, 1998). Literacy Reading requires that the reader associate the written language system to the phonemes of spoken language. Therefore, the reader must be aware that the spoken language system can be divided into smaller units or phonemesâ¦the reader must be phonemically aware (Yopp, 1992).