word recognition
Identifying written language
Word recognition is the ability to identify written words, either by sounding them out or by recognizing them instantly on sight.
The term appears most often in discussions of reading development and literacy instruction.
Skilled readers achieve automatic word recognition, processing familiar words without conscious effort: Her word recognition improved after months of practice with flashcards.
- graphemesUnits of writing systems
- semantic processingExtracting meaning from language
- morphemesSmallest meaningful language units
- phonemesMinimal sound distinctions
- orthographyStandard writing conventions
fluency · reading speed · phonics instruction · flash cards · memory retrieval · comprehension · visual perception · eye movement · vocabulary · reading · early reading · semantics · literacy · cognitive load · lexicon · aphasia · syntax · letters
- word recognitionreading speed
- elementary schoolclassroom, student, first grade teacher, reading skills, teacher
- readingfluency, read, comprehension, readers, books
- literacyliteracy, reading, spelling, alphabet, writing
- reading skillsvocabulary, literacy skills, decoding, grammar, fluency
- reading basicssight words, letter tracing, short vowel, long vowel, beginning reader
word recognitionword blindness
Inability to read text
alexia · dyslexia · reading difficulty · misreading · illegibility