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Theoretical Orientation To Reading Profile

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The DeFord Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile (TORP) was designed to differentiate preservice and in-service teachers according to their theoretical orientation to reading, the TORP consists of twenty eight items reflecting practices and beliefs about reading instruction. (https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED236661, n.d.)

Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile (TORP) The Theoretical Orientation assessment was created to assess teachers’ beliefs about teaching and learning reading. Teachers’ theoretical beliefs in the study are separated into three categories based on their responses. The categories are phonics orientation for teachers who emphasize the importance of knowledge of letters and sounds, a skills orientation for those …show more content…

After taking the theoretical orientation to reading profile, self-assessment my results landed me within the skills category. The teachers associated with the skills category are said to believe reading derives from learning a discrete set of skills in order for the student to gain a proficient competency level.
The statement above I completely agree with, in order for students to fully understand what they are reading they must learn the basic set of skills. Students learning skills such as repetitive word introduction, vowel recognition, and sounding out words into parts are on the same lines as learning what each piece of equipment in a gym is for before working out. One cannot simply begin a work out without accessing the machine and knowing what muscle the particular machine targets. As, it is important for a new word to be repeated a number of times after being introduced to ensure it will become part of sight vocabulary. Repetition is the most intuitive principle of learning, aging back to ancient Egyptian education. According to Piaget, development is the result of repeated patterns of exercise of the reflex (Piaget & Inhelder, 1969, p. 8), the circular reaction (Piaget, 1963, p. 66), the reuse of known schemes of assimilation employed in novel situations (Piaget & Inhelder, 1969, p. 10), the “gradual accommodation to external reality” through …show more content…

Students will be able to identify thousands of words they have never seen written if they learn the skill of identifying the various sounds represented with the vowels presented. Children must become expert users of the letters they will see and use to write their own words and messages (Lyon, 1998). Children's knowledge of letters is a strong predictor of their success in learning to read (Adams, 1990). (David J. Chard, n.d.) A students ability to think about words as a sequence of sounds is important to their understanding. Resulting from the students’ understanding of vowel sounds they are able to identify rhyming words and create their own rhymes. They also learn that sentences are made up of separate words, words are composed of syllables, and words are made up of sounds that can be separated from each other and manipulated in other ways. (David J. Chard,

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