Child Acquisition - Reading Notes

Reading Notes

Reading Strategies

Skills required to read:

• Follow the line smoothly from left to right, top to bottom
• Recognise shapes of letters and words (e.g. lower and upper case letters)
• Recognise correspondences between shaps and the aural experiences of language
• Recognise that in English the same graphemes can correspond to different phonemes and vice versa
• Matching words recognised on the page with words and meanings contained in the memory
• Recognising syntactic units and decoding their grammatical structures
• Retaining an understanding of the first part of a sentence in the memory until the end
• Recognising textual 'signposts' and indicators of textual cohesion
• Checking understanding against real world knowledge

Reading strategies:

• Use phonemic/graphemic correspondences to match letters/words to words we already know from the spoken language and to guess pronunciation of previously unknown words 
• Use ability to recognise and distinguish visually the shapes of whole words
• Use knowledge of syntactic structures to predict the kinds of meanings that are possible in a given slot
• Use our understanding of text structures and genres to predict the kind of meanings we are likely to find

Hooder and Stoughton - Towards Independent Reading

• Finger-pointing prevents: line jumping, reading across punctuation marks and sentence bounding
• Intonation patterns reveal minimal understanding

Johnston and Watson

There the two different types of phonics:

• Analytical phoenics - the whole…