Child Language Acquistion - Reading

Parent-child interactions

• Gain attention on a picture
• Query on object in the picture
• Label object in the picture
• Feedback

• Look and say - Learn the shape of words, not phonemes
• Phonics - Learn morphemes that go with graphemes as well as letter blends

• Graphonic - Shape of words, linked with graphemes
• Semantic - Meanings of words, decoding new ones
• Visual - Use visual narrative to decode new words
• Syntactical - Use knowledge to see if word fits
• Contextual - Understanding of story
• Miscue - Making errors

• Pre/Pseudo Reading (up to 6) - Pretend to read, some letter recognition, predicting words
• Initial reading (6-7) - Simple texts with high frequency lexis
• Confirmation/Fluency (7-8) - Read texts quickly, and understanding
• Reading for learning (9-14)
• Multiplicity and Complexity (14-17)
• Construction and Reconstruction (18+)

• Lexical repetition
• Synactical repetition of structures
• Simple verbs
• One sentence per line
• Anaphoric referencing
• Limited use of modifiers
• Text-image cohesion