A Child Learns to Read

A Child Learns to Read

1. What is Reading?

   • A Thought-getting process

2. Theories of Reading Acquisition

   • Nonstage Theory
     • the Earlier theory
       • Revised by Goodman in 1997
         • Graphophonic Information
           • Grammar and Semantic
             • decipher the message
   • Stage Theory
     • second Stage
       • A Seminal Study by Juel (1988)
         • Spelling-sound Stage
         • Automatic Stage
         • Sophisticated Stage

3. Cueing Systems

   • The Grapho-Phonological System
     • Phonemes (sounds)
     • Graphemes (letters)
   • The Pragmatic System
   • The Semantic System
     • Morpheme
   • The Syntactic System (Sound Stream of Language)

4. The Reading Process

   • Skills Used in the Reading Process
     • Using Letter-sound relationships
       • Phonics
     • Acquiring a sing vocabulary of immediately recognized words
       • Sight vocabularysuch words
       • Predictable books
       • Big books
       • Tracking
     • Gainging Meaning from context
       • Contex
       • Memorization
       • Comparison
   • Characteristics of the Reading Process
     • Reading is holistic process
       • Decoding
     • Reading is a contructive process
     • Reading is a strategic process
       • Metacognition
     • Reading an writing are aynergistic precesses
     • Reading is a interctive process
   • The Reading Process and Learners Who arae Diverse
     • spetial childs

5. The Reading Product

   • explicit instruction