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.
It is important to let children choose some reading material on their own to maintain interest. Literacy skills can begin in early childhood. Being able to decode the deeper meaning in texts is part of literacy. Literacy skills are applied to analytical and computational tasks throughout life. Reading comprehension and writing are among important literacy skills. The development of literacy skills is often helped by personalized tutoring.
(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).