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Principles of Multisensory Structured Language (MSL) Education Flashcards

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  1. Which historical figures developed the original multisensory approach to reading instruction for students with dyslexia?

    Answer: Samuel Orton and Anna Gillingham

    Samuel Orton, a neurologist, and Anna Gillingham, an educator and psychologist, developed the original OG method in the 1920s and 1930s, which is the foundation of all modern MSL approaches.

  2. In MSL instruction, the linguistic component refers to teaching:

    Answer: The structure of language systematically including phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics

    The structured language component of MSL ensures that all levels of the language system including phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics are taught explicitly and systematically.

  3. The principle of overlearning in MSL education serves to:

    Answer: Ensure skills become automatic and can be recalled without conscious effort

    Overlearning means practicing skills beyond initial mastery to achieve automaticity, freeing cognitive resources for comprehension.

  4. In the MSL lesson structure, which phase is specifically designed to build reading fluency?

    Answer: Oral reading of decodable or controlled text

    Oral reading of decodable or controlled text within the lesson provides the supported fluency practice needed to build accurate, automatic reading of patterns at the student's current instructional level.

  5. The MSL principle of sequential instruction means that content is taught:

    Answer: From simpler to more complex, in a carefully designed developmental order

    Sequential instruction follows a carefully designed developmental scope and sequence, moving from simpler phoneme-grapheme relationships to more complex patterns, ensuring each step is mastered before advancing.

  6. When a CALT records student errors during a lesson and uses this data to adjust the next lesson, this reflects the MSL principle of:

    Answer: Diagnostic teaching

    Using lesson-embedded error data to adjust subsequent instruction reflects diagnostic teaching, the ongoing formative use of assessment data to inform instructional decisions.