Ciencia de la Lectura

Science of Reading in Spanish

“El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho
y sabe mucho”.

Miguel de Cervantes
Saavedra, escritor español

Definition

Science of Reading (SoR)

The International Literacy Association (ILA) defines
the Science of Reading (S0R) as:

“a corpus of objective investigation and
accumulation of reliable evidence about how humans learn to read and how reading should be taught.”

SoR Components:

  • Phonological and phonemic awareness
  • Phonic-structural analysis and spelling
  • Fluency
  • Vocabulary
  • Text Comprehension

Basic Steps of Systematic Phonics Instruction:

  • Phonological Awareness
  • Sound-letter correspondence
  • Phonemic blending and segmenting
  • Individual phonemes versus whole syllables (the Spanish language research below)
  • Reading syllables, words and high-frequency words
  • Writing syllables, words and high-frequency words
  • Reading decodable stories

Researchers have been divided about the optimal spelling-sound
unit to teach beginners to read in Spanish.

  • Sargiani, Ehri, & Maluf (2019) studied Brazilian first-grade readers:  Students were taught to read 40 CV words using 10 consonants and 5 vowels.
  • One group was taught to sound and blend graphemes in the
    CVs.
  • The other group was taught the CVs as whole syllables.
  • Results indicated that the grapheme-phoneme group read and
    spelled more accurately than syllable group.

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