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= **Welcome to Petice Malviste's Wiki!** =

 All children develop differently.  Literacy development is unpredictable, every child progresses at a different level.

The fact that there are possibilities of alternative pathways to literacy (Clay, 1998 cited in Hill, 2006) does not lessen our responsibility to introduce children to text and text types that are not easily accessible outside of school.

Teachers need to find out what children bring from home to school, and carefully build bridges from this to help them with their literacy development (Hill, 2006).

Children need to be challenged and inspired to learn, acquiring skills and strategies in a consistent way so they feel successful. Children may find "Wikispace's" a useful yet challenging tool to help them with their literacy development; if they can figure out how to read Petice's Wiki, I'm sure they can conquer the world!