Brain Research in Reading?

What is going on with

Scarborough’s Rope Model

Word Recognition

PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS http://www.readingrockets.org/podca

sts/brainlearning (0-3:18)▪ Speech sound discrimination skills screening▪ with the right opportunity, will be a proficient

reader▪ screening has 80% accuracy of prediction

proficient readers▪ Word games- phonological awareness

Word Recognition

DECODING Reading Rockets Rewiring the Brain

video http://www.readingrockets.org/podcasts/brainlearning (0-2:10, 4:13-5:30)

Word Recognition

SIGHT RECOGNITION▪ Orthographic memory ▪ Orthography – spelling patterns of English▪ orthographic memory is different from visual memory▪ Poor spellers - significantly slower and more error prone than better spellers at classifying both regularly and strangely spelled words

detecting letter transpositions in long words

Language ComprehensionBACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE Facts Concepts Prior experiences

E.D. Hirsch - Core Knowledge

Language ComprehensionVOCABULARY 60 Minutes video with Marcel Just,

Carnegie Mellon University http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-

10131643-76.html (0-3:05)

if your oral vocabulary is large, you look like a better decoder

Language ComprehensionLANGUAGE STRUCTURES Syntax Semantics

Language Comprehension

VERBAL REASONING Reading Rockets Comprehension

video

http://www.readingrockets.org/podcasts/experts

(10:40-11:22) Thinking Skills

Language ComprehensionLITERACY KNOWLEDGE Print concepts genres

Let’s Put it ALL together

Reading Rockets video: Comprehension http://www.readingrockets.org/podcasts/experts

(13:30-14:40) Comprehension is the end goal, get meaning off

printed pageReading Rockets video – G. Reid Lyon :The Reading

Process http://www.readingrockets.org/podcasts/experts (2:33-3:30) 

Why do teachers need research to teach Reading? Reading Rockets video – Phyllis Hunter http://www.readingrockets.org/podcasts/experts

(0:53-2:25)

Many Parts Involved

The Reading BrainThe Left Hemisphere

Phonological processing: articulatory mapping

Graphemic analysis

Phonological processing: correspondence between letter and sound

Relay station;Cross-modality integration

After multisensory instruction, brain activity changes from the RIGHT, visual side of the brain to the LEFT, logical processing side.

Changing the brain

The Reading Brain

Teachers can rewire

the brain!