lassroom Snapshot: Word Study

Improve students’ ability to hear sounds by working with rhymes, riddles, and stories;

print awareness

second grade, Ms. Cleary’s students build their comprehension during the Read Aloud and in Shared Reading. During these times, students are listening to a book read to them or are supported by the voices of other fluent readers; thus, their cognitive energy is freed to think strategically about the texts. In fourth grade, however, students are able to use comprehension strategies during Independent Reading; for most students, decoding has become an automatic process. The fourth graders with weak decoding skills (Clayton, Shawnice, and Troy) listen to a book on tape during this time to improve their reading fluency and also attend Mr. Moreno’s small group for additional instruction in troublesome spelling patterns.

Phonological and phonemic awareness

phonological and phonemic awareness

Reading Habits Checklist.

Literacy as a Big Goal

develop your students’ prior knowledge by allowing them to share their knowledge of the subject and giving the class important information they will require to make sense of the text.

frustration levels of your students

prefix, root, and suffix

Understanding the function of print and the characteristics of books and other print materials

One of the most profound and personal connections that young childre

honics (decoding words by examining relationships between sounds and letters)

absence of literacy skills is one of the key indicators of the achievement ga

more than 74% of children who enter first grade at risk for reading failure will continue to struggle to read into adulthood.3 Weak literacy skills will prohibit these children from accessing entire fields of knowledge

absence of literacy skills is one of the key indicators of the achievement gap

absence of literacy skills is one of the key indicators of the achievement ga

it's another thing entirely to observe a ten year old who can only read 40 words per minute at the beginning of fourth grade, when he should be reading over 100

dramatic difference in the total number of words heard by children at the high end of the socio-economic scale (45 million words over four years) and the children in the lowest sector of the socio-economic scale (13 millio

dramatic difference in the total number of words heard by children at the high end of the socio-economic scale (45 million words over four years) and the children in the lowest sector of the socio-economic scale (13 million

Upon encountering a word that had not been taught, children were told to use picture or context clues to determine its meaning.

Upon encountering a word that had not been taught, children were told to use picture or context clues to determine its meaning.

bothdecoding and comprehension processes

by reading books on their independent level and thinking about more challenging books that are read aloud to them.

mental energy can be used to read and comprehend increasingly complex words and texts.

What Is Literacy?

Phonological Awareness: Understanding that the spoken language is made up of units of sounds, such as sentences, words, and syllables

ntain both syllables and individual sounds, or phonemes. They should be able to hear and produce rhyming and alliteration, as well as begin to segment and blend simple words (to break the word cat down into the sounds /c... a... t/ and put those sounds together again to say cat). Students should also be able to recognize, name, and easily write the individual letters of the alphabet (both capital and lowercase), and know their corresponding sounds

Children become, in a real sense, independent readers.

Phonological Awarenes

pre-writing strategies

common roots, prefixes, and suffixes)

ability to comprehend—to actively read and understand language

multitude of words related to many content areas

balanced literacy instruction

oung, capable readers will seize the opportunities provided in a literacy-infused classroom and develop invaluable confidence in their own abilities, which leads directly to success in other subjects