Midterm Study Guide Flashcards
What is the top strand of the Reading Rope called?
Language Comprehension
What are the components of language comprehension? (RR)
Background Knowledge, ocabulary, language structures, verbal reasoning, literacy knowledge
What is the bottom strand of the Reading Rope called?
Word Recognition
What are the components of word recognition? (RR)
Phonological awareness, decoding, sight recognition
What is the outcome of the reading rope?
Skilled reading
What is the four-part processing system for?
Word Recognition
Top to bottom, what are the components of the four-part processing system?
Content processor (background information, sentence context), meaning processor (lexicon), phonological processor (speech sound system, speech input and output), and orthographic processor (letter/word memory, writing output, reading input)
What connects phonological and orthographic processing?
Phonics
Why is early intervention for reading disabilities important?
It means steps could be taken to prevent or improve reading difficulties
What are two consistent predictors of future reading disabilities?
Early learning language impairments and family history of learning disabilities
What is the most widely held view at present of the cause of reading disabilities?
Affected children have a core phonological deficit impeding development of phonemic awareness that interferes with discovering the alphabetic principle and learning to decode
Learning to recognize words depends heavily on what?
The accurate matching of written symbols with sounds and connecting sound patterns with meaning
Why is the four-part processor concept useful?
a. the various ways in which reading problems might develop
b. why reading instruction should target several kinds of skills
c. the model reminds us that instruction should aim to educate all of the processing systems and enable them to work together
Simple view of reading
word recognition x language comprehension = reading comprehension
What is language made up of?
Rule systems
