Principles of Multisensory Structured Language (MSL) Education Flashcards
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The term multisensory in MSL education refers to the simultaneous engagement of:
Answer: Auditory, visual, and kinesthetic-tactile pathways during instruction
MSL instruction engages the auditory, visual, and kinesthetic-tactile pathways simultaneously to strengthen learning through multiple sensory channels.
The MSL principle of cumulative instruction means:
Answer: Each new concept builds directly on previously mastered material, with ongoing review
Cumulative instruction ensures that each new skill is explicitly connected to and builds upon previously mastered content, with continuous review to maintain mastery.
Which of the following activities is an example of MSL instruction in phonics?
Answer: Simultaneous Oral Spelling where the student says each letter while writing it, then reads the word
Simultaneous Oral Spelling simultaneously engages auditory, kinesthetic-tactile, and visual channels, making it a classic multisensory activity for spelling instruction.
The concept of diagnostic teaching in MSL means that the CALT:
Answer: Continuously monitors and adjusts instruction based on student responses during the lesson
Diagnostic teaching involves ongoing observation of student responses to adjust pacing, review, and instruction in real time, using the lesson itself as a continuous assessment tool.
The synthetic phonics approach as used in MSL instruction teaches students to:
Answer: Blend individual phoneme-grapheme correspondences to decode unfamiliar words
Synthetic phonics teaches students to connect individual phonemes to their graphemes and blend these connections to decode unfamiliar words from left to right.
The IDA's definition of structured literacy specifies that it must be all of the following except:
Answer: Discovery-based
Structured literacy is defined as explicit, systematic, sequential, cumulative, multisensory, and diagnostic, but not discovery-based, which is the antithesis of the explicit instruction required.