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EDU 341
CHAPTER 1 - THE READING ACT
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| affective | relating to attitudes, interests, values, appreciations, and opinions |
| auditory acuity | sharpness of hearing |
| auditory discrimination | the ability to differentiate among sounds |
| automaticity | the ability to carry out a task without having to give it much attention |
| bottom-up models | models that depict reading as being initiated by examination of the printed symbols, with little input required from the reader |
| grapheme | a written symbol that represents a phoneme |
| hearing impairments | a condition that exists when the sense of hearing is defective but is functional for ordinary purposes |
| interactive theories | theories that depict reading as a combination of reader-based and text-based processing |
| kinesthetic | pertaining to body movement and muscle feeling |
| metacognitive strategies | a person’s knowledge of the functioning of his or her own mind and his or her conscious efforts to monitor or control this functioning |
| modality | a sensory system for receiving and processing information (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile) |
| motivation | incentive to act |
| perception | the interpretation of sensory impression |
| phoneme | the smallest unit of sound in a language |
| reinforcemnt | any event or condition that increases the likelihood that a response will or will not recur |
| schemata | the clusters of information that people develop about things, places, and ideas |
| self-concept | opinion of oneself |
| semantic clues (cues) | meaning clues |
| subskill theories | theories that depict reading as a set of subskills that children must master and integrate |
| syntactice clues (cues) | clues derived form the word order in sentences |
| tactile | pertaining to the sense of touch |
| top-down models | models that depict reading as beginning with the generation of hypotheses or predictions about the material by the reader |
| transactive theories | theories based on Rosenblatt’s idea that every reading act is a transaction that involves a reader and a text and occurs at a particular time in a specific context, with meaning coming into being during the transaction between the reader and the text |
| vicarious experiences | indirect experiences |
| visual acuity | sharpness of vision |
| visual discrimination | the ability to differentiate among shapes |
| visual impairment | the condition of being partially sighted but able to read print |