Word Identification Strategies : Building Phonics into a Classroom Reading Program

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Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-01-01
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall
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Summary

Acknowledging that phonics is a necessary tool for helping children become independent readers, this practical, up-to-date book ensures readers learn strategies supported by current researchhelps teachers be prepared for today's standards-based educational system and the expectations of administrators, parents, and others.This book incorporates current best practices in phonemic awareness, word families, letter-sound patterns, and multi-letter groups into 96 practical, research-based activities. Coverage addresses the needs of children who have difficulty identifying words in context, as well as those whose first language is not English. By focusing on transferable teaching strategies rather than rote letter/sound learning, this book reshapes how teachers will introduce this critical component of reading to today's classrooms.For teachers of grades K-6.

Author Biography

Barbara J. Fox is Professor of Reading at North Carolina State University.

Table of Contents

Word identification in your classroom reading programp. 1
Phonemic awareness : becoming aware of the sounds of languagep. 23
Early word identification : using logos, pictures, word shape, and partial letter-sound associations to read new wordsp. 67
Analogy-based phonics : using the predictable patterns in known words to read new wordsp. 83
Letter-sound phonics : the strategy of using letter-sounds to read and learn new wordsp. 121
Structural analysis : using the chunking strategy to read and learn long wordsp. 173
Teaching English language learners and children at riskp. 221
Rimes for word reading and spellingp. 251
Letter-sound patternsp. 255
Generalizations for adding suffixesp. 271
Greek and Latin rootsp. 275
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