Word Identification Abridged Rapid automatic word recognition facilitates

Word Identification Abridged

Rapid, automatic word recognition facilitates fluency and comprehension Literacy How, Inc. 2

The Many Strands of Early Reading Success ORAL LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION LITERACY KNOWLEDGE (print concepts, genres, etc. ) BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE (fact, concepts, etc. ) VOCABULARY, esp. expressive (breadth, precision, links, etc. ) LANGUAGE STRUCTURES (syntax, semantics, etc. ) VERBAL REASONING WORD RECOGNITION (inference, metaphor, etc. ) PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS (syllables, phonemes, etc. ) DECODING (alphabetic principle spelling-sound correspondences) SIGHT RECOGNITION (of familiar words) SKILLED READING Fluent execution and coordination of word recognition and text comprehension Increasingly automatic Adapted from Scarborough, 2000 Literacy How, Inc. 3

Stages of Reading Development Layers of English Orthography Pre-alphabetic Early-Alphabetic Stages of Spelling Development Examples Preliterate Students learn that text is read from left to right. They recognize the letters of their names in environmental print and use pictographic writing: for example, for bug, or for house. Early Letter Name Students begin to read CVC words and represent words with a single predominant sound, usually a consonant. Later they spell first and last consonant sounds: for example KR for car. Middle and Late Letter Name Mature Alphabetic Pattern Orthographic Meaning Students include a vowel in each syllable. They spell regular short-vowel patterns, but use the letter name for long-vowel sounds: for example, CAK for cake. Within Word Pattern Students know most sound/spellings and recognize common “chunks” like phonograms and word endings. They begin to experiment with long-vowel markers: for example, SNAIK for snake. Syllable Juncture Students process words using syllable and morphemic information. They read unknown words by analogy to known words; for example, should would. They join syllables correctly by doubling or changing letters when using inflectional endings. Derivational Constancy Students focus on meaning and correctly spell Haskins Laboratories 4 derived forms with affixes and roots.

Spelling stages adapted from K. Ganske (2000) Word Journeys, NY: Guilford 5 Pubs.

Consonant Phonemes/Sounds • Consonant are always blocked sounds (teeth, tongue, lips) and can be voiced (Vocal chords vibrate) or unvoiced (vocal chords do not vibrate).

Vowel Phonemes/Sounds • Vowel sounds are unblocked and always voiced.

Phonics/Spelling Generalizations Literacy How, Inc. 8

Initial Deck a t i s n p f Literacy How, Inc. 9

Advanced Deck • a t i s n p f Literacy How, Inc.

The Four Types of Phonics Instruction 1. Analogy/word families 2. Synthetic 3. Analytic 4. Spelling Literacy How, Inc. 11

English is not Perfectly Phonetic. safe march stain saw napkin paper What sound does the “a” stand for? • Literacy How, Inc. 12

Syllable Types • With 26 letters we can create thousands of different syllables depending upon the letters we select and the order in which we place them. ( about 3, 000) • With 10 digits we can create an infinite number of numerals depending upon the digits we select and the order in which we place them.

Syllable Types • The vowel letters represent different sounds depending upon which letters that appear after them. • Digits represent a different value depending upon the (number of) digits that appear after it.

Place Value 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 14 8, 9374 2, 456 807, 432 671, 435, 985

Syllable Types a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k. l. m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z sad safe stain saw starch napkin paper Literacy How, Inc. 16

Six Syllable Types for Decoding and Encoding C closed VC at O open V he V vowel teams VV rain, cow E silent e Vce ate R r controlled Vr for S final stable syllable [Cle [tion crumble action That about COVERS it! Literacy How, Inc. 17

Structural Analysis Analyzing words into morphemes or meaningful units of language: Roots: The letters that remain after prefixes and suffixes are removed. Prefixes: Letters added to the front of a root or word that changes its meaning Suffixes: Letters that are added to the end of a root or word that changes its meaning or the way it is used in Literacy How, Inc. 18

Structural Analysis/ Suffixes • tub s • hunt ed (id) grab ed (d) stuff ed (t)

Structural Analysis/ Suffixes • rent ing • glad ly • good ness • bank er •

Structural Analysis/ Prefixes un happy re turn sub marine Literacy How, Inc. 21