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Bottom Up Model

Top Down Model

Interactive Model

1. Letter name, shapes


2. Letter relationships
3. Words meaning

1. Meaning does not


require 100% word
identification
2. Read, write, speak,
listen
3. Meaning is
important

1. Develop skills &


strategies in
meaningful context
2. Word identification
contributes to
meaning

Materials/Methods 1. Drilling
2. Skills practice in
isolation
3. Reader learns to
decode then can
attend to meaning
4. Each word must be
recognized for
meaning

Predictable books,
songs, rhymes,
language experience

Multiple methods text


features, spelling
patterns, authentic
reasons for reading &
writing

Assessment

Accuracy in skills, word


identification

Knowledge
constructed through
meaning

Drives instruction

Problems

Inability to decode

Lack of experience
with words, text or
activities

Over reliance on either


top down or bottom up
method

Key Features

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