Orthographic Processing Skills Flashcards
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A student reads fluently but scores poorly on a WIAT spelling subtest. The most likely explanation is:
Answer: Phonological awareness is stronger than orthographic output skills
Reading can rely on partial orthographic cues and context, while accurate spelling demands complete retrieval of stored letter sequences, so a dissociation is possible.
Which of the following best describes an 'orthographic lexicon'?
Answer: A stored inventory of the visual-letter patterns of known words
The orthographic lexicon is the component of the language system that holds memorized visual representations of whole-word spellings.
When a student misspells 'separate' as 'seperate,' this error most likely reflects:
Answer: Failure to store the correct vowel pattern orthographically
Both vowels sound similar in speech, so the error reflects an incomplete orthographic representation rather than a phonological confusion.
On a pseudoword spelling task, a student who scores poorly but performs well spelling real words likely has:
Answer: Weak phonological recoding with strong orthographic knowledge
Pseudoword spelling demands phonological recoding because no stored orthographic form exists, so poor pseudoword performance with intact real-word spelling indicates reliance on the orthographic lexicon.
The WIAT assesses orthographic processing partly through tasks that require a student to identify:
Answer: The correctly spelled word among foils that are phonetically similar
Choosing the correctly spelled word from phonetically equivalent alternatives measures the quality of the stored orthographic representation.
A child spells 'station' as 'stashun.' This type of error is best described as:
Answer: Phonologically plausible but orthographically incorrect
'Stashun' accurately represents the sounds of the word but does not reflect knowledge of the conventional spelling patterns, indicating an orthographic deficit.
Which factor most strongly predicts growth in orthographic knowledge over the elementary school years?
Answer: Amount of print exposure through reading
Extensive reading provides repeated encounters with written words that gradually consolidate orthographic representations in long-term memory.