2.3.5 Other Reading Theories

Question 1

Describe Clay’s theory

Answer 1

When children read, they notice mistakes they make if they don’t fit with the rest of the text

Question 2

Who theory can you link Clay’s to

Answer 2

Goodman’s

Question 3

Describe Perfetti’s theory. 3

Answer 3

Thinks reading is first and foremost about increasing number of words child understands
Leads to children learning patterns of phoneme-grapheme correspondence
Child then learns to accept or reject certain patterns in certain words

Question 4

Hirsh Pasek’s progression of childhood reading development . 4

Answer 4

Stage of decoding followed by looking at whole world’s semantic meaning
Then child gains understanding of inferred and pragmatic meaning
Then child gains understanding on syntactic meaning
Then child learns how to comprehend strings of syntactical units in a wider discourse

Question 5

Describe Gough and Hillinger’s theory

Answer 5

Say children go through 2 key stages in reading
First being ‘early visual socialisation’
Second being ‘decoding’