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Dyslexia: - Answer An unexpected written language impairment that hasneurological origins.
Difficulties with
Accurate and fluent word recognition
Spelling and decoding abilities.
misread frequent words, choppy, hesitant.
Normal intelligence
Core Deficit: Phonological Awareness
Dysgraphia refers to difficulties or bad handwriting.
Strephosymbolia--ANSWER Twisted symbols, the first term used to
characterise dyslexia coined by S. Orton
Phonetics – the study of spoken sounds.
Phonological awareness is the ability to focus on units of sounds in spoken
language and sentence/word/syllable/phoneme levels.
Phonemic awareness is the knowledge of spoken sounds or phonemes in spoken
words.
Phonics-- ANSWER teaching that connects sounds to letters.
Phonology refers to the laws that govern how sounds are utilised in spoken
language.
Alphabetic Principle- ANSWER notion that spoken sounds are represented in
print by written letters (Cox-Childs)
Phoneme – the smallest unit of sound.
, Fluency-- ANSWER reading quickly and automatically
Prosody refers to the rhythmic flow of oral reading.
Pragmatics is a set of rules that govern our communicating behaviour.
Syntax - Answer phrase construction *** Grammar
Semantics--Answer word meaning.
A grapheme is a letter or cluster of characters that represents a single speech
sound.
Orthography--ANSWER spelling of written language.
Orthographic memory: ANSWER memory of letter patterns and word spellings.
Metalinguistics is the awareness of language as an entity.
Guided discovery is the ANSWER method of directing pupils to new learning
through questions.
Heuristic: ANSWER to discover through demonstration.
Decoding is the process of breaking down phonetic codes in order to determine
a word.
Blending is the fusion of distinct sounds, syllables, or phrases into meaningful
units.
Reading: ANSWER symbol->sound, grapheme->phoneme.
Encoding vs Decoding: - ANSWER Encoding: spelling and writing
Decoding - Reading
Synthetic vs. Analytic: **Both include syllable division. - ANSWER Synthetic:
part -> whole, spelling
Analytic- Whole->Part, Reading
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