Word Recognition Strand

Decoding and Spelling

Phonological Awareness

Decoding

Definition: The ability to apply knowledge of sound-letter relationships

Closed syllables

Open syllables

Magic E

we can test decoding with nonsense words

Phonology: the study of the sound patterns in languages

Phonemes

Graphemes

Phonics

Definition: the knowledge of the relationship between individual phonemes (sounds) and graphemes (letter symbols.)

Can be more than one letter

44 Phonemes in English

Schwa

Definition: Phonological awareness allows one to attend to, discriminate, remember, and manipulate sounds at the sentence, word, syllable, and phoneme (sound) level.

Be direct about Rhyming

Play With Syllables

Hear First Sounds

Segmenting or hearing al the sounds in a word

Phonemic Awareness: the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words

Alphabet knowledge (next class)

To be able to read we must be able to sound out words with phonemic awareness and understand what we read with good speaking and listening skills

Dyslexia: Good understanding of language with poor pa and decoding

nurturing oral language for good speaking and listening