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Components of Effective Literacy Instruction - phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension The Big Five - Nickname for the five essential components of effective literacy instruction National Reading Panel - outlined the give essential componen...

Strephosymbolia - Learning disorder in which symbols and especially phrases, words, or letters appear to be reversed or transposed in reading. Who coined word "Strephosymbolia" to differentiate between itself and "word-blindness"? - Samuel Orton What is synthetic teaching - Part t...

Suprasegmental - Aspect of Language (intonation, stress, loudness, pitch level, juncture - (the set of features in speech that enable a hearer to detect a word or phrase boundary), and speaking rate) Segmental - Aspect of Language (phonemes - vowels & consonants) Phonoligical Awarene...

Adolph Kussmaul (1877) - "word blindness" Dr. Rudolph Berlin (1887) - Came up with the word "Dyslexia' James Hinschelwood (1897) - reported cases of "congenital wordblindness", called on schools to screen and treat it Dr. W. Pringle Morgan (1896) - Wrote 1st medical journa...

Alexia - The loss of the ability to read, as the result of a brain injury. Apasia - Impairs the ability to speak and understand others. Articulation - The act or manner of producing sounds. Echolalia - Imitation of the mother's sounds, rhythm and tone. Hyperlexia - The su...

Rhyming - One of the first phonological awareness skills to develop Blending & segmenting at syllable level - Develops at 3-4 years Segmenting phonemes - Develops at 4-5 years Isolating beginning sound in words, segmenting phonemes in CVC words - Develops in kindergarten Segm...

closed syllable - A syllable with only one vowel, closed at the end by a consonant. (A vowel in a closed syllable is short, code it with a breve). open syllable - A syllable with only one vowel and it is open at the end. (A vowel in an open accented syllable is long, code it with a macron)....

Analytic Teaching - presents the whole and teaches how this came be broken down into it component parts(ex-syllable division) synthetic teaching - presents the parts of a language and then teaches how the parts work together(ex-spelling) Anaphora - using a pronoun or definite article ...

synthetic phonics - sound symbol correspondences - taking parts to the whole analytic - spelling - hear a whole word and segment the word into phonemes - whole to parts phonological memory - holding information about words and sounds in memory phonological working memory - proce...

Dr. Samuel T. Orton - a neuropathologist coined the term "strephosymbolia" which replaced congenital word blindness treatment must be highly structured education Anna Gillingham - Educational psychologist A diagnostician who worked with Dr. Orton. Together they developed procedures fo...

Chall's Reading Stages - Pre-reading ( Stage 0) Learning to Read (Decoding-1 & Fluency - 2) Reading to learn (Multiple view points - 4 & Construction 5 & Reconstruction 6) Chall's Reading Stage 0 - Pre-reading: Read common signs and labels; write own names; learns letters and some sound...

McGuffey Readers - Formal reading instruction was based on "phonics" used at the beginning of the 20th Century Dick & Jane ( "Look/Say" Method ) - Thought that children would make more rapid progress reading if they identified whole words at a glance. Used from 1930s - 1960s. Rudolph...

decoding recognition of the visual symbol, symbol/sound correspondence, and blending sounds into a word are all part of- Pre-Reading Stage language appreciation, awareness of printed words, mastery of alphabet and simple words Greek elements eu, chloro Current Research on the brain...

Adolf Kussmaul - Coined The phrase word blindness in 1877 Rudolph Berlin - Coined the term dyslexia to describe word blindness in 1887 Dr. Samuel T Orton - Coined term strephosymbolia/twisted symbols; cerebral dominance theory; adopted VAKT frim Fernald 1925 Sally & Bennett Shaywit...