Reading-Accuracy Development with Tests for Teaching Dr Susan Galletly Sept 2009

Transparent-orthography vs. English reading-accuracy devpt‣ Transparent orthographies: these early skills are the sum total of RAdevelopment• Reading accuracy = Phonemic recoding.• No more stages and tests of RA development needed.‣ English: these early skills are only the beginning of RA development• Reading accuracy = Phonological recoding, i.e., including• Phonemic recoding of commonest sounds of letters• Recoding of orthographic units, e.g., ough, igh, -tion• Recoding of irregular words as whole words• Combinations of the above‣ Needed: More stages (& tests) of English RA development.InitialSoundFluency(ISF)PhonemeSegmentationFluency (PSF)Letter NamingFluency (LNF)NonsenseWordFluency(NWF)?OralReadingFluency(ORF)