The Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read: A FRAMEWORK
Sebastian Wren
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CREATION OF A SUITE OF READING RESOURCES ...... 3 HISTORY OF SEDL’S READING PROJECT ...... 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...... 4 SEDL’S FRAMEWORK AND COMPLEMENTARY RESOURCES ...... 7 THE READING ACQUISITION FRAMEWORK: AN OVERVIEW BY WESLEY A. HOOVER AND PHILIP B. GOUGH . . . 13 THE FRAMEWORK ELEMENTS ...... 19 Language Comprehension ...... 20 Decoding ...... 23 Background Knowledge ...... 26 Linguistic Knowledge ...... 27 Phonology ...... 27 Syntax ...... 28 Semantics ...... 29 Decoding and the Cognitive Elements that Support It ...... 32 Cipher Knowledge ...... 33 Lexical Knowledge ...... 34 Phoneme Awareness ...... 36 Knowledge of the Alphabetic Principle ...... 40 Letter Knowledge ...... 41 Concepts About Print ...... 42 Reading Comprehension ...... 43 Putting the Pieces Together ...... 45
USING THE FRAMEWORK AND SUITE OF RESOURCES ...... 47
GLOSSARY OF FRAMEWORK ELEMENTS ...... 51
Aa H ISTORY OF SEDL’S READING PROJECT
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