Week 1 An overview of Supporting children with difficulties in reading in writing
Week 1 An Overview Dr. Vincent Goetry went through the Uta Frith model of reading development: the LOGOGRAPHIC stage, the ALPHABETIC stage, and the ORTHOGRAPHIC stage. The logographic stage means children can recognize words as pictures, such as STOP on a red stop sign, or the shape of their name. The alphabetic stage requires that children understand that words can be broken up into smaller phonemic units. The child also needs to understand that the language spoken relates to the language written, and that the link as from oral phonemes to written graphemes. The orthographic stage [look up definition of orthographic stage] allows the child to see the written symbols (graphemes) and immediately and automatically, wholistically, recode them in her brain as sounds (phonemes). After maybe the 10 th or 20 th time seeing the word “school,” for example, she might know without going through the several step process of recognizing the letters, recognizing the grapheme groupi