The Science of the Bilingual Reading Brain
General
Our students
100

Dialogue: Necessary for language acquisition 

What is Oracy?

100

Language comprehension+word recognition=Skilled reading

What is the Science of reading?

100

More students are identified as ______ in the lower grades.

What are English Learners?

200

Phonological awareness, Phonics and phonetics, Complex words, Opaque orthography: Sometimes not bilingually negotiable, Fluency, Phonological and morphological awareness


What is Explicit Phonics?

200

The predecessor of the Science of Reading from 1986

What is the Simple View of Reading?

200

When second language is received after the first language

What is Sequential Bilingual?

300

Language Structures, Prior cultural and Content knowledge


What is Language Comprehension?

300

Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening

What are the 4 modalities of language?

300

When they had enough exposure to a language in childhood to have a native-like comprehension of it, but have little or no active command of it.

What is Receptive Bilingual?

400

Interlingual process: Vocabulary, Cross-linguistic connections, Translanguaging, Bridging  


What is Transfer?

400

What is one of the barriers that English Learners have to become skilled readers fully in English? 

What is the language barrier?

400

When they learn two languages at the same time, with mostly equal emphasis given to both languages.

What is Simultaneous  Bilingual?

500

The ability to effectively communicate or understand written thoughts and ideas through the grammatical systems, vocabularies, and written symbols of two different languages.

What is biliteracy?

500

Oracy+Transfer+Explicit Phonics+Language comprehension=Reading Comprehension+Biliteracy

What is the Science of the Bilingual Reading Brain?

500

When they are continuing to develop their home language while also learning an additional language.

What is Emergent Bilingual?