Science of Reading Review

Simple View of Reading is a formula for developing proficient reading comprehension. The two components that produce reading comprehension are:

• Word Recognition & Phonemic Awareness

• Decoding & Encoding

• Word Recognition & Language Comprehension

• Phonemic Awareness & Language Comprehension

Which of the following is TRUE of the Reading Brain:

• The brain memorizes words as whole units.

• The brain builds connections between visual letter patterns and their sounds.

• Stuggling readers need to see a word 4-6 times to read it with automaticity.

• Sight words are the words that students read through memorization.

ANY word that is accurately and effortlessly recognized, whether it is spelled regularly or irregulary:

• High Frequency Words

• Phonemes

• Graphemes

• Sight Words

The words that occur most frequently in written English that can be spelled regularly or irregularly:

• High Frequency Words

• Sight Words

• Heart Words

• Graphemes

Learning to read by taking apart the sounds in words and blending sounds together:

• Encoding

• Decoding

• Phonemic Awareness

• Heart Words

Breaking a spoken word down into parts that are written or spelled out:

• Decoding

• Blending

• Encoding

• Graphemes

The smallest unit of speech. There are 44 of these in the English language.

• Graphemes

• Segmenting

• Heart Words

• Phonemes

A written symbol that represents a sound.

• Phonemes

• High Frequency Words

• Graphemes

• Segmenting

The process of combining sounds to read a word.

• Segmenting

• Sight Words

• Blending

• Encoding

The ability to break up spoken words into their separate sounds.

• Blending

• Decoding

• Segmenting

• Phonemes