Foundation of Phonics (for teachers)

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One element of reading instruction that teachers should be familiar with is word ____. Readers use word analysis to analyze written words and construct both their sounds and their _____.

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Printed letters, words, and sentences are language symbols from which a reader seeks to derive ____. Word analysis refers to those strategies a reader uses when unfamiliar words are encountered in written ____. Both sound and meaning are _____ by the symbols in our written language.

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Front

Readers construct meaning from written language. Although emergent readers are already familiar with the spoken form of their language, most of them are unfamiliar with the ____ form of language.

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Many word ____ strategies are referred to as decoding skills. A reader must be able to use the knowledge of the ____ language code to decode words.

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Phonics, or graphophonics, is only one of many important word ____ strategies. Some elements of word analysis, such as phonological awareness and phonemic awareness, are skills that develop earlier. These enable readers to use word analysis ____.

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Front

In reconstructing a message from written ____, a reader uses at least three types of cueing systems. These interrelated cueing systems are graphophonics, semantics, and syntax.

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Grapho ____ information describes the relationship between sounds and the letters or spelling patterns making up written ____.

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Semantic information refers to the meaning elements of language. The vocabulary and conceptual background of a reader influence his or her ability to use ____ information.

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Syntax refers to the sentence patterns and structure, or grammar, of ____. Readers use these structures, or ____ cues, when constructing meaning from print.

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Readers use all three types of cueing systems, graphophonics, semantics, and syntax, simultaneously during the reading ____.

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