This guide provides future educators with a strong foundation in the essential concepts, theories, and cognitive processes that support literacy development. Focusing on the science of reading and writing, it explores the major components of effective literacy instruction, including word recognition, morphology, vocabulary, reading fluency, reading comprehension, writing, and oral language. Rather than serving as a comprehensive instructional manual, this text is designed to build the foundational knowledge educators need to understand how literacy develops and to support evidence-based…