1. What are some methods for teaching short vowel sounds? Hand gestures that relate the sound to something they know very well help students relate that sound better to when they will see it in sentences.
2. How many pattern words should be first introduced to a student during a word-building lesson? When introducing new patterns you shouldn't go over six. They should work in the five to six word range to make it more meaningful. 3. True or False: Even though the best practice for phonics is reading, students don't need reading materials that the reinforce skills they've already been taught or that are on the appropriate level of difficulty. I would say false. I think that students need to work with materials that bring forth what they have been working on and most definitely need to work on their difficulty level. You don't want to make a child frustrated when reading. Yes you want to challenge students but don't want to discourage them that they aren't able to read appropriate text.
4. What are the benefits of having a word wall?
The benefits of having a word wall is that students have somewhere to look for refreshers and can reinforce their understanding. In all grades at my school we have to have word walls. I do it by subject area so that my students have somewhere to look when working on activities to solidify their understanding of ideas being learned. In the lower grades, the word wall is done by beginning letter. This is very useful for students when learning patterns because they are able to transfer their understanding of one word to another new word.
Linking Phonics and Vocabulary Development:
It is important to link phonics decoding rules to a text that students are about to read and are expected to understand. Phonics instruction should be explicitly and strategically aligned to what is to come.
Vocabulary Development:
This powerpoint was chock-full of suggested activities to better students vocabulary development in the classroom.
1. True or False? Students should only work individually when working on fluency exercises.
False, like with most activities students work best with other students. Fluency exercises are great for pairs to work together and work with each other on what they are doing well on and what they should work on. As part of my schools school improvement plan we have fluency as something we want to improve school wide so I have been having my students each week work on different fluency activities in pairs. 2. The ability to recognize words quickly is due in part to the reader reading a wide variety of books. This statement is true because reading exposes students to a wide variety of words and the more students work with high-frequency words, the quicker they will be at recognizing them in a text. It's important to expose students through different genres too to show that these words appear in every type of text.
3. What is repeated reading? Repeated reading is exactly as it sounds, repeating a certain piece of text to work on building fluency. This year my fifth grade class is doing a cold read one week and continuing that same piece for three more weeks to show fluency words per minute and fluency when having repeatedly read the same text over time. 4. What makes a Carbo recording different than a regular book on tape? A carbo recording goes at a slower pace. This type of recording allows for page turns throughout the book and at the end does a quick synopsis of the text. Books on tape are great but they are just that. There isn't any added focus other than the words on the page read with expression.
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