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The Simple View Of Reading

Hannah Patrick, Kelly White, Alex Fisher, Abby Whitteker

Brief Overview

  • States that RC is equal to the product of decoding and LC

R= DxC

  • If one component skill is nil, improvements in the other skill will not lead to an overall improvement in reading ability

Why is this important for teachers?

  • It is broken down into more manageable material

  • Emphasizes the importance of these skills in any classroom

Skilled Reading

  • Able to process printed words

  • Understand the meaning of specific words and sentences

  • Troubles with individual words or syntactic structures used in a text

Underlying Skills

  • Greater knowledge of spoken word meanings

  • Attend to whole words, sentences and extended pieces of texts

  • Exposure to written text

Discussion Questions

1. Do you think The Simple View of Reading is too simple?

2. What aspects are needed to become a successful reader?

3. How would you implement this framework into your own classroom?

Evaluation

  • Always consider the end point

  • It is wrong to conclude that reading comprehension is a simple process

  • Likely to be refined in the future

Reading Difficulties

1. Developmental Dyslexia

2. Poor Comprehenders

3. Garden Variety

Implications

  • Showed evidence of specific weaknesses as early as kindergarten

  • Early identification is key!

Activity Time!

Doctor Mix-Up

Group 1: has both vision and speech

Group 2: has speech, but no vision

Group 3: has vision, but no speech

Other Reading Theories

  • There are many additional reading theories

  • Example: Metacognitive Theories
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