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EDLC 554 D ISCUSSION A SSIGNMENT I NSTRUCTIONS You will complete three Discussions in this course. For each Discussion, you will post one thread of at least two paragraphs and 450 – 500 words by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Thursday of the assigned Module: Week. You must then post two replies of at least two paragraphs and 150 – 200 words on Sunday of the assigned Module: Week. For each thread and reply, support your assertions with scholarly citations in current APA format. Reading comprehension is a difficult task. According to Nation article “Children’s Reading Difficulties, Language, and Relfections on the Simple View of Reading (2019)”, the Simple View of Reading can be captured as the product of two sets of skills: decoding and linguistic comprehension. It explains variance in reading comprehension and provides a good framework to guide the classification of reading disorders. Nation used the term decoding to mean the ability to identify words within the text and linguistic comprehension as the ability to understand the spoken language. “Both decoding and linguistic comprehension are necessary for reading comprehension and neither alone is sufficient (Nations, 2019).” The goal of teaching reading comprehension is for the reader to restructure the words of the writer. As educators we need to assess how good children are at decoding and listening comprehension will help us determing how good they are at reading comprehension. Students who are able to decipher words does not guarantee that they will understand what they have just read. “The simple View assumes that once written input is decoded, reading comprehension is achieved via exactly the same processes used to understand spoken language (Nation, 2019).” If students are unable to process both, then ultimately reading comprehension will fail, even if the student is able to decode perfectly. The blog Reading Rockets written by Dr. Shanahan shares that the science of reading depends on who you talk to. There is no definition that has been fully agreed upon. Throughout the blog, Dr. Shanahan’s view of the science of reading is clear, it requires that teachers use rigorous instructional evaluations to determine if there is a deficit. Students look for visual patterns when they read and in order to read those patterns should be processed phonologically. The article and this blog both share that decoding is a necessary part of the fundamentals of learning to read. A true science of reading will include much more then just phonics, decoding, text reading fluency, and phonemic awareness. Kate Nation (2019) Children’s reading difficulties, language, and reflections on the simple view of reading, Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 24:1, 47- 73, DOI: 10.1080/19404158.2019.1609272
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