Reading First New Jersey - Professional Development
Video-based Reading Strategies and Techniques: Phonics
Glossary
- Alphabetic Principle - The ability to associate sounds with letters and use these sounds to form words.
(* Source - Alphabetic Principle in Beginning Reading, from the Institute for the Development of Educational Achievement (IDEA), College of Education, University of Oregon) - Analogy-based phonics - Children learn to use parts of word families they know to identify words they don't know that have similar parts.
(* Source - Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read- Phonics Instruction, from the National Institute for Literacy) - Analytic phonics - Children learn to analyze letter-sound relationships in previously learned words. They do not pronounce sounds in isolation.
(* Source - Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read- Phonics Instruction, from the National Institute for Literacy) - Context Clues - Context clues are sources of information outside of words that readers may use
to predict the identities and meanings of unknown words. Context clues may be
drawn from the immediate sentence containing the word, from text already read,
from pictures accompanying the text, or from definitions, restatements,
examples, or descriptions in the text.
(* Source - Reading Glossary, from Reading Rockets, WETA, PBS) - Phonics - Phonics instruction teaches children the relationships between the letters (graphemes) and the individual sounds (phonemes). It teaches children to use these relationships to read and write words.
(* Source - Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read- Phonics Instruction, from the National Institute for Literacy) - Structural Analysis (Word Parts) - Early Fluent and Fluent Readers can use their increased awareness of the structure of words (word parts) to help figure out new words. They can be helped to notice roots and endings (play, played, playing; fast, faster, fastest) and suffixes and prefixes (un/help/ful). They also can learn about "compound words" (some/thing, every/body).
(* Source - Literacy Guide: Strategies and Techniques, from Bank Street's Guide to Literacy for Volunteers and Tutors, Bank Street College of Education) - Synthetic phonics - Children learn how to convert letters or letter combinations into sounds, and then how to blend the sounds together to form recognizable words.
(* Source - Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read- Phonics Instruction, from the National Institute for Literacy)
