PSY 124 Lecture 2: Psychology of Subject Matter - Learning to Read
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Top. replace the /t/ with /p/ you say the new word. Cat. replace the /t/ with /p/ you say the new word. Now, what do you have? [deletion of first phoneme] Hop. break hop into its sounds. [segmenting] Ehri, nunes, stahl, & willows (2001: training of decoding words, phonic instruction is effective in the long-run, systematic phonics instruction is essential for improving students" decoding skills. We explain why phonics instruction is so central to learning in a writing system such as english. We call for an end to the reading wars. Inaccurate stage - unable to do it yet: 2. Accuracy stage - able to read, but it takes a lot of mental effort: 3. Learning to become a telegraph operator by decoding morse code and making that decoding process automatic: gradually, their decoding skill improves, x axis: weeks of practice, y axis: letters per minute. It"s not enough time to learn all the words you need to know.