Instructional Design
An instructional approach that explicitly introduces the individual building blocks of language first, then shows how they combine into wholes.
What is synthetic instruction?
This civil rights law protects individuals with disabilities by requiring federal programs to provide full, non-discriminatory access and accommodations.
What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504)?
This morpheme means "star" or "outer space", found in words like astronaut and astronomy.
What is astro?
This basic morpheme means "life", forming the foundation of logy and graphy.
What is bio?
Pre-reading: oral language development
Stage 0
An instructional approach that starts with a whole word or concept and teaches a student to break it down into its separate pieces.
What is analytic instruction?
The medical and clinical term used to describe the simultaneous coexistence of two or more related disorders within a single individual.
What is co-morbidity?
Meaning "light", this root helps build words like synthesis (making food from light) and graph (drawing with light).
What is photo?
Meaning "earth" or "ground", it is the first half of logy (the study of rocks) and graphy (mapping the world).
What is geo?
Construction and Reconstruction: construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis
Stage 5
This core rule of MSLE states that lessons must follow a logical linguistic path, going from easiest to hardest, with every step built on prior knowledge.
What is systematic and cumulative instruction?
The specific literacy profile where a student suffers from a dual deficit in both phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming speed.
What is a double deficit?
If you are studying thermodynamics or using a mos, you are dealing with this root meaning "heat" or "warmth".
What is therm?
This root means "city", found in words like metropolitan or the ancient Greek acropolis.
What is polis?
Confirmation and fluency: decoding skills, fluency and additional strategies
Stage 2
A highly individualized, responsive style of teaching where an instructor continually assesses student performance in real-time to guide instruction.
What is diagnostic teaching?
The clinical term for the complete loss of the ability to read, which typically occurs as a result of an acquired brain injury or physical trauma.
What is alexia?
This root means "green", which makes sense given its role in phyll (the pigment that makes plants green).
What is chloro?
Meaning "stone" or "rock", you see this root in the word sphere (the crust of the Earth) or graph (printing from stone).
What is litho?
Multiple view points: analyze text critically, understand multiple view points
Stage 4
The core principle of direct instruction that states that a teacher must never assume a child will simply "pick up" or infer a language rule on their own.
What is direct instruction or explicit teaching?
The clinical term for the loss or impairment of the ability to use, structure, and comprehend spoken words due to a brain injury.
What is aphasia?
This morpheme means "water".
What is hydro?
This versatile root means "both" or "double", explaining why bians live both on land and in water.
What is amphi?
Initial reading: letters represent sounds, sound-spelling relationships
Stage 1