Welcome to another blog series brought to you by Cuenye Consultants. We thank you for taking this journey right along with us as we learn more about what the science of reading is. The information presented here is to further teacher content knowledge on the reading brain in order to strengthen their teacher practice in addition to informing parents about what is needed to ensure reading success for their little ones.
The science of reading is a vast, interdisciplinary body of scientifically-based research about reading and issues related to reading and writing. (The Reading League)
We left off learning about the Simple View of Reading, also known as SVR. This simple formula shows that decoding and language comprehension are separate but necessary skills for reading comprehension. Now let's take a look at another visual to assist in understanding the development of skilled reading.
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The above image is named Scarborough's Reading Rope from Dr. Hollis Scarborough. It is a highly popular image used to illustrate the complexities of reading. The reading rope consists of upper and lower strands. The lower strands, known as Word Recognition, consists of phonological awareness, decoding, and sight recognition. These are the sub-skills that lay the FOUNDATION of successful reading and heavily concentrated in the early grades k-2. As the SVR formula suggests, when one variable is strong and the other is weak, then reading comprehension will be equal to the weaker variable. The upper strands, known as Listening Comprehension, consists of background knowledge, vocabulary, language structure, verbal reasoning, and literacy knowledge. These strands reinforce one another and intertwine with word recognition skills to yield a skilled reader.
These skills take time and explicit instruction in order to develop efficiently and effortlessly.
Why is this important? If you notice your child is experiencing difficulty in particular areas of reading, then this visual may assist in understanding what your child's strengths are and what they need support in. This visual also provides parents with the vocabulary to lead discussions with their child's teacher.
If you are unsure of the type of instruction to help your little one strengthen their decoding and/or language comprehension skills, reach out to us at: info@cuenye.com
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