Child Language: Reading Flashcards
What are the two phonic approaches?
Synthetic and analytic
What are the features of a synthetic phonic approach? (2)
- Teaches children the individual phonemes.
- Once understood, they can blend them together to form a word
What are the features of an analytic phonic approach? (2)
- Doesn’t teach individual phonemes.
- Teaches them the breakdown of words in key sections.
- E.g. ‘th’ words, they would learn lots of them: thorn, thief and thirds.
What are semantic cues?
Using knowledge of stories to predict events e.g. Once Upon a Time
What are the 2 basic reading needs, according to F. Smith?
- The availability of interesting material.
- Guidance from an experienced reader.
What are the features of a ‘look and say’ approach? (2)
- Children learn to recognise whole words or sentences rather than individual phonemes.
- Flashcards with individual words written on them are used for this method, often accompanied with a related picture so that children can link the object and the referent.
What are J Chall’s 6 stages of learning to read?
- Pre/pseudo reading
- Initial reading/ decoding
- Fluency
- Reading to Learn
- Multiple Viewpoints
- Construction and Re-construction
What is a phoneme?
A unit of sound
What is a grapheme?
Letter/letters which represent a sound
What is phoneme- grapheme correspondence?
Being able to match a grapheme to a phoneme
Name a graphological feature a children’s book might include.
Pictures, bold font, large font
Name a lexical feature a children’s book might include.
Monosyllabic words, nouns
What do ‘onset’ and ‘rime’ relate to?
Analytic phonics
Which reading approach encourages children to spot patterns across words?
Analytic phonics
What is a monosyllabic word?
One syllable word
