The cognitive foundations of reading Flashcards
What are the 5 components of reading instruction?
- Phonemic awareness
- Phonics
- Vocabulary
- Reading Fluency
- Comprehension
What are the major differences between the behaviouristic and Psycholinguistic views of reading?
- bottom up (B) vs top down (P)
- separate skills vs holistic & simultaneous
- text driven vs comprehension driven
Phonemic awareness
Recognition of sounds in speech and the ability to manipulate them
n example of a more complex phonological activity
Blending and segmenting phonemes
Less complex phonological activities
- Rhyming songs
- Sentence segmentation
Comprehension strategies categories
- Literal understanding
- Reorganise ideas/info
- Draw conclusions
- Evaluation
- Appreciation
Define comprehension
The ability to draw meaning from and understand language
Define reading fluency
The ability recognise words automatically & effortlessly and to read quickly with appropriate expression
How can vocabulary be indirectly developed?
- Read-alouds
- Oral discussions
- Independent reading
- Watching movies
- Everyday conversation
What direct instruction is used to teach vocabulary?
- word analysis
- teaching of prefixes, root words & suffixes
- concept maps
Name the reading strategies
- Modelled reading
- Shared reading
- Guided reading
- Independent reading
What are the two main goals of reading instruction?
The ability to read fluently and with comprehension
Skills learners need for word recognition
- Phonics knowledge (Decoding ability)
- Ability to study, memorise and remember (Word recognition skills)
