LETRS: Simulation Presentation

3 Cueing vs. 4 Processors

Four-Part Processing Model

The Reading Brain

Final Thoughts

A Little About Me

A Look at the Four-Part Processing Model

LETRS

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SOR Book & Professional Learning

"Ah-ha" Moment: The challenge of reading, especially for beginning readers, is to figure out how print relates to spoken language.

SOR "she-ro" Lyn Stone

My Favorite Children's Book

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Olivia Broxey-Jones, Ed.D. Literacy Specialist

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Reading Comprehension

Language Comprehension

Word Recognition

Simple View of Reading

Now It's Your Turn

Phonics

Interacts and supports the meaning processor; provides the referent for a word's meaning

Interprets the meaning of words in and out of context

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Sound Associations

Recognition of Letters

Figure 1.7 The Four-Part Processing Model for Word Recognition (Based on Seidenberg & McClelland, 1989)

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• Simple View of Reading

• WR x LC = RC

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• Four processors in the left hemisphere of the brain perform specific interconnected tasks for word recognition

Four Processors:

*Example

Three-Cueing System:

• The phonological and orthographic processors are not distinguished

• Phonology and phonics are minimized

• Skilled readers read words as a whole, not letter by letter

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Snowling, M. J., & Hulme, C. (Eds.). (2005). The science of reading: A handbook. Blackwell Publishing.

Snow & Juel, 2005 (in The Science of Reading: A handbook)

"... attention to small units in early reading instruction is helpful for all learners, harmful for none, and crucial for some."

Final Thoughts

Graphophonic Cues

"What word makes sense? The word 'horse' begins with an 'h', and that matches the picture that I see."

Syntactic Cues

"The word must be a noun, it couldn’t be a verb such as 'horsing'. Let's skip this word for now and keep reading to see if the next few sentences offer some clues to what it might be.'

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Semantic Cues

“I don’t recognize this word, but what would make sense? In the context of the sentence and what I know, it would make sense if this word were 'horse'.

The rodeo rider leaped onto the back of his h_____ .