The Simple View of Reading
The accurate and automatic retrieval of decoded word forms.
What is word recognition?
Phonological awareness, decoding, and sight recognition make up this part of the reading rope.
What is word recognition?
The part of the brain where the 44 phonemes of English are stored.
What is the frontal lobe?
A child "reads" environmental print.
What is the prealphabetic stage?
Can you tell me three meanings of the word box?
What is the meaning processor?
The linguistic process involved in the comprehension of oral language.
What is language comprehension?
Syllables, rhyming, manipulation of phonemes, and onset-rime make are included in this strand of the reading rope.
What is phonological awareness?
The part of the brain where pieces of the 26 letter forms are stored.
What is the occipital lobe?
Instruction is full of rich vocabulary and the study of morphology.
What is the consolidated alphabetic phase?
"Medusa had locks made of snakes," what does locks mean?
What is the context processor?
A product of word recognition and language comprehension.
What is reading comprehension?
Any word that can be accurately and automatically decoded.
What is a sight word?
The part of the brain where words are stored as if "by sight".
What is the visual word form area?
Students in this phase have solid letter-sound correspondences, basic phoneme blending/segmenting, and some sight word recognigtion.
What is the full alphabetic phase?
Matching uppercase and lowercase letters.
What is the orthographic processor?
The smallest meaningful unit of language.
What is a morpheme?
What is decoding/phonics?
When a reader can accurately and automatically decode text, it frees up space for _____.
What is language comprehension?
Students in this phase may confuse letter names for letter sounds.
What is the partial alphabetic phase?
Say pale. Say it again but don't say /l/.
What is the phonological processor?
A writing system that is organized by both sound-symbol correspondences and morphology.
What is morphophonemic?
Fluent execution and coordination of word recognition and text comprehension.
What is skilled reading?
The brain term for the super highway that is made more efficient and smooth during phonics instruction.
What is the angular gyrus?
A letter name with six phonemes.
What is 'w'?
The bridge between the orthographic and phonological processors.
What is phonics?