Comparisons
Reading words
Teaching reading to children
100

Visual and spread out across space

What is reading?

100

Specifies that skilled readers employ both a direct-access route and an indirect-access route

What is the dual-route approach to reading?

100

Argues that readers can directly connect the written word-as an entired unit-with the meaning that this word represents.

What is the whole-word approach?

200

Auditory and spread out across time

What is speech?

200

When you recognize a word directly through vision without "sounding out" the words.

What is the direct-access route?

200

States that readers recognize words by trying to pronounce the individual letters in the word.

What is the phonics approach?

300

Can control the rate of imput while listeners cannot.

What are readers?

300

As soon as you see a word, you translate the ink marks on the page into some form of sound, before you can access a word and its meaning.

Indirect-access route

300

Reading intruction should emphasize meaning, and it should be enjoyable, to increase children's enthusiasm about learning to read.

What is the whole-language approach?

400

Usually encounter standardized, error-free input

What are readers?

400

Children with high _______ _______ have superior reading skills.

What is phonological awareness?

400

Children should read interesting stories and experiment with writing before they are expert ______

What are spellers?

500

Often need to cope with variablity, grammatical errors, sloppy pronunciation, and interfering stimuli.

What are listeners? 

500

People's ______ _______ can determine whether they use indirect or direct access.

What is reading skills?

500

English is an _____ ______ because of the numerous irregular pronunciations for English words.

What is "outlier language"?