Learning Outcomes
Participants will...
- understand the role phoneme awareness plays in word retrieval
- revisit and redefine the term “sight word”.
- understand that word recognition is NOT based on visual memory
- be able to define a meaningful letter string
- understand what makes letter strings meaningful, and how they are anchored into permanent memory.
- understand the concept of alphabetic principle
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Assessment
Test yourself:
- A sight word is…
- Sight words are stored in…
- There is a large statistical correlation between phoneme awareness and …
- What makes a letter string meaningful is…
- Define the alphabetic principle.
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