What are the Essential Components of Reading? - ANSWER 1. Phonemic
Awareness
2. Phonics
3. Fluency
4. Vocabulary
5. Comprehension
What entity developed the Essential Components of Reading? - ANSWER the
National Reading Panel
Discuss the National Reading Panel's recommendations concerning phonemic
awareness. - ANSWER Phonemic awareness instruction should be systematic
and explicit. It is an important part of classroom instruction, beginning in
preschool.
Discuss the National Reading Panel's recommendations concerning phonics. -
ANSWER Systematic phonics instruction produces significant benefits for
students in Kindergarten through 6th grade.
Marilyn Jager Adams - ANSWER known for work in phonological awareness;
cited in 2000 as one of five most influential people in national reading arena
Jeanne S. Chall - ANSWER 5 Stages of Reading
Alyett R. Cox - ANSWER spent 10 years developing Alphabetic Phonics
curriculum with Dr. Lucius Waites and the staff of Texas Scottish Rite Hospital
Anna Gillingham - ANSWER educational psychologist; two year fellowship
with Dr. Orton; assisted in developing procedures of remediation of reading,
spelling, and writing
Reid Lyon - ANSWER neuropsychologist; retired from his academic career;
continues to write and conduct research relevant to the neurobiology of dyslexia
, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as well as continuing investigations of
reasoning abilities in adolescents; confirmed importance of phonological
awareness
Louisa Moats - ANSWER holds philosophy that current spelling crisis is
caused by whole language; notable writings: LETRS, Speech to Print,
"Teaching IS Rocket Science"
Dr. Samuel T. Orton - ANSWER neuropathologist; coined term
"strephosymbolia" to describe the problem of reversals in dyslexia; recognized
that dyslexia was most likely neurologically based, but its treatment had to be
educational
Margaret Byrd Rawson - ANSWER founder and former president of the Orton
Dyslexia society, later named the International Dyslexia Association; conducted
one of the nation's longest-running studies of children with language disorders,
tracing for more than half a century the lives of 56 boys from the School in
Rose Valley Moylan, PA
Joseph Torgesen, PhD - ANSWER distinguished Research Professor of
Psychology and Education, FSU; author of PALS Series--Build Early Literacy
Lucius Waites - ANSWER pediatric neurologist born in Hattiesburg, MS;
1968, hosted a meeting of The World Federation of Neurology in Dallas, where
a medical definition of dyslexia was drafted; founded the Child Development
Division at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
affix - ANSWER a letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or
ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or
grammatical form that is different than the base word or root
alphabetic principle - ANSWER the concept that letters and letter
combinations represent the individual phonemes in words
base word - ANSWER a word to which affixes are added
Awareness
2. Phonics
3. Fluency
4. Vocabulary
5. Comprehension
What entity developed the Essential Components of Reading? - ANSWER the
National Reading Panel
Discuss the National Reading Panel's recommendations concerning phonemic
awareness. - ANSWER Phonemic awareness instruction should be systematic
and explicit. It is an important part of classroom instruction, beginning in
preschool.
Discuss the National Reading Panel's recommendations concerning phonics. -
ANSWER Systematic phonics instruction produces significant benefits for
students in Kindergarten through 6th grade.
Marilyn Jager Adams - ANSWER known for work in phonological awareness;
cited in 2000 as one of five most influential people in national reading arena
Jeanne S. Chall - ANSWER 5 Stages of Reading
Alyett R. Cox - ANSWER spent 10 years developing Alphabetic Phonics
curriculum with Dr. Lucius Waites and the staff of Texas Scottish Rite Hospital
Anna Gillingham - ANSWER educational psychologist; two year fellowship
with Dr. Orton; assisted in developing procedures of remediation of reading,
spelling, and writing
Reid Lyon - ANSWER neuropsychologist; retired from his academic career;
continues to write and conduct research relevant to the neurobiology of dyslexia
, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as well as continuing investigations of
reasoning abilities in adolescents; confirmed importance of phonological
awareness
Louisa Moats - ANSWER holds philosophy that current spelling crisis is
caused by whole language; notable writings: LETRS, Speech to Print,
"Teaching IS Rocket Science"
Dr. Samuel T. Orton - ANSWER neuropathologist; coined term
"strephosymbolia" to describe the problem of reversals in dyslexia; recognized
that dyslexia was most likely neurologically based, but its treatment had to be
educational
Margaret Byrd Rawson - ANSWER founder and former president of the Orton
Dyslexia society, later named the International Dyslexia Association; conducted
one of the nation's longest-running studies of children with language disorders,
tracing for more than half a century the lives of 56 boys from the School in
Rose Valley Moylan, PA
Joseph Torgesen, PhD - ANSWER distinguished Research Professor of
Psychology and Education, FSU; author of PALS Series--Build Early Literacy
Lucius Waites - ANSWER pediatric neurologist born in Hattiesburg, MS;
1968, hosted a meeting of The World Federation of Neurology in Dallas, where
a medical definition of dyslexia was drafted; founded the Child Development
Division at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
affix - ANSWER a letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or
ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or
grammatical form that is different than the base word or root
alphabetic principle - ANSWER the concept that letters and letter
combinations represent the individual phonemes in words
base word - ANSWER a word to which affixes are added
