By creating patterns and supporting multimodal engagement, new knowledge such as vocabulary, narrative structures, or classroom processes can be more readily encoded and retrieved in Long-term Memory while promoting engagement.
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Sustained Attention, the ability to maintain focus, is an important component for literacy success because it can help students attend to classroom instruction and to the material they are reading or writing.
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