Why is Reading so difficult?
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The Reading Brain
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Meaningful parts of words.

What is Morphemes?

100

The language system that guides the principle no English word begins with the sound /ng/.

What is phonology?

100

A student utilizing what processor recognizes the sound /b/ as the first sound in the word bank.

What is the Phonological Processor?

100

Both regular and irregular words committed to automatic reading.

What is Sight Words?

100

Chiyanna when asked to spell her name has memorized the spelling. When the teacher asks Chiyanna, "What is the first sound in the word 'cat'?" She replies, "Meow!"

What is "Prealphabetic Phase?"

200

Types of Writing Systems that have been names can be classified according to the level of language they represent.

What is Orthographies?

200

The Language System that guides the principle that CIV is a root and civic is an adjective and civilization is a noun, and civically is an adverb. 

What is morphology?

200

A student recognizes the word weak and week have different meanings is using which processor.

What is the semantic (meaning) processor?

200

The role of phonological processing in word recognition does not exist in this cueing system forcing readers to focus on strategies rather than phonics when deciphering the alphabetic code.

What is the Three Cueing System?

200

Jan easily maps symbols to sounds and is acquiring a large vocabulary. Her teacher focuses instruction morphology and the syntactic role of language. 

What is the Consolidated Alphabetic Phase?

300

Alphabetic Orthography where the sound-symbol correspondences in the alphabetic writing system are regular and predictable with one letter one sound (Serbo Croatian, Finnish)

What is a shallow orthographic system?

300

The Language system that guides the principal the word bolt is multiple meaning word. 

What is Semantics?

300

A student correctly spells the word think utilizes which processor.

What is the orthographic processor?

300

The reading eye reads by focusing on what?

What is letter by letter?

300

Tina's sight word bank is increasing by recognizing both regularly spelled and irregularly words effortlessly.  Her teacher is focusing instruction to build her fast and accurate word recognition and spelling so that words will not have to be laboriously sounded out after they are first encountered. 

What is the Late Alphabetic Phase?

400

An alphabetic orthography which represents morphemes and graphemes. 

What is a Deep Morphophonemic Orthography?

400

The Language System that guides the principle that every English word ending in /v/is spelled -ve.

What is Orthography?

400

A student utilizes accurately tells the meaning of the word locks in the sentence: "Medusa had locks made of snakes."

What is the Context Processor?

400

Successful implementation of this program provides emphasizes prevention and early intervention in reading instruction which decreases special education referrals. 

What is MTSS?

400

Mrs. Lipstreu wants to gain more information about her students' Phases of Word Reading Development. What informal assessment/data should she use to gain this information?

What is a Spelling or Writing sample?

500

The type of alphabetic writing Orthography of the English Language.

What is Deep Morphophonemic?

500

The Language System principle that states the system of rules governing permissible word order in sentences. 

What is Syntax?

500

The area in the back and middle of the brain specializes in processing printed words and is not specialized for processing any other visual, nonverbal stimuli such as objects, faces, or places. 

What is the brain's letterbox?

500

A student scoring basic or below basic on a phonological assessment in first grade would be struggling with what skills.

What is Phonemic Awareness, Decoding, and Sight Words?
500

In small group, Kelly uses the first sound of a word to   to "guess" the word. Her teacher focuses on common spellings for each phoneme and is developing the habit for looking at ALL the letters in a simple word in order to sound it out.

What is Early Alphabetic Phase?

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