Why Reading is Difficult
How long ago alphabetic systems became put into widespread use.
What is 400 years?
This model states reading comprehension is the product of word recognition and language comprehension.
What is the Simple View of Reading?
This term refers to the smallest units of sound in spoken language
What are phonemes?
This phase-based theory explains how children develop word recognition skills over time
What are Ehri's Phases?
This part of the brain stores speech sounds.
What is frontal lobe?
Human language which allows us to create and communicate new messages
What is generative language?
This model shows reading as multiple strands that weave together into skilled reading
What is Scarborough's Reading Rope?
This instructional skill involves blending sounds together to form words
What is blending?
This instructional practice uses spelling to support decoding
What is encoding?
Another name for the occipital lobe
What is the brain's letterbox?
This feature of English makes it harder to read and spell than other alphabetic languages
What is a complex spelling system?
This model includes phonological, orthographic, meaning, and context processors.
What is the 4 part processing model?
This awareness of individual sounds in words is critical for reading success.
This process involves mapping sounds to letters to read and spell words.
What is phoneme-grapheme mapping?
What is a function MRI?
the ability to think about and reflect on the structure of language
What is metalinguistic
This term refers to the fast, accurate retrieval of decoded word forms.
What is word recognition?
These variations in speech must be considered using a culturally responsive lens.
This term describes reading quickly and accurately without conscious effort.
The eyes do this as the brain scans the text
What are jumps and stops (or fixations and saccades)?
Seven Systems
How many systems there are in language?
This term refers to components including vocabulary and Language Structures.
What is Language Comprehension?
This is a visual way to organize vowels.
What is the vowel valley?
In skilled readers, decoding shifts away from effortful analysis and becomes this type of process.
What is subconscious?
During reading, the eye typically fixates for about this amount of time
What is about .25 seconds?