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HOW DOES LITERACY
LINKS WORK?
Research has
clearly shown that everyone’s brain has four processors, which good
readers engage when they are reading…or more specifically, decoding.
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The phonemic
processor – the most important of the four – translates the
letters we see into the sounds those letters represent. |
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The orthographic
processor is the one skilled readers use when they scan words
to locate the part or parts of a word that are familiar to them.
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To determine
whether or not what they are reading makes sense, readers must
tap the meaning processor, a mental dictionary that provides
a definition of the word. |
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Finally,
a good reader uses their context processor to confirm the meaning
of the word by analyzing the context in which it is used. |
The key to
the success of Literacy Links is its focus on establishing phonemic
awareness, which develops a child’s critical decoding skills. Then
it establishes the mental pathways and connections that ultimately
engage the other processors and make the reading process virtually
automatic.
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