Week 6

Question 1

What phonology is needed for decoding?

Answer 1

Alphabetic knowledge
Print awareness
Phonological awareness

Question 2

What are the patterns in learning alphabetic knowledge?

Answer 2

Own name advantage
Letter-name pronunciation effect (“b” started with a /b/; “w” started with a /d/)
Letter-order hypothesis (early letters first)
Consonant-order hypothesis

Question 3

Print awareness

Answer 3

Interest/appreciation for print
Awareness that print conveys meaning (Tell me what the sign says)
Understanding of print conventions
Knowledge of print unit like “words” and “letters”
Relationships between print units

Question 4

Phonological processing

Answer 4

Phonological awareness (letters-sounds relationships, decoding, spelling, word recognition)

Phonological memory (storage)

Phonological retrieval (rapid access)

Question 5

Phonological Awareness

Answer 5

Children's sensitivity to the sound structure of words
Moves from shallow (being able to count words on page (3-5 yrs) 
To Deep (being able to divide a word into its phonemes (5-8 yrs) - rhyming, counting syllables

Question 6

Phonological Memory

Answer 6

Coding
Ability to hold phonologically encoded info in memory for a short period of time to help reading and spelling

“Clorne” - not a real word but you can say because of phonological memory of phonemes

Question 7

Phonological retrieval

Answer 7

Ability to access the meaning of words and phonological info fast