Teaching Phonics and Word Recognition

Teaching Phonics and Word Recognition for

Successful Decoding Skills

by: SHERILYN E. NUESCA

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Objectives:​

• ​Understand how Phonics for Reading directly connects to the science of teaching reading

• ​Discuss the basics of phonics.

• ​Discuss the fuller technique in teaching beginning reading. 

• ​Write activities in teaching beginning reading using the fuller technique and explicit teaching. 

Multiple Choice

Children's reading development is dependent on their understanding of ___________________________.

• onsets and rimes

• symbol-sound relationships

• sound to word matching

• the alphabetic principle

Multiple Choice

What is the Alphabetic Principle?

• Knowledge of letter sounds

• Understanding that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds

• Learning letter names

• Identifying, naming, and writing letters

Multiple Choice

Phonics and high frequency words are taught in the following early grade(s):

• Kindergarten

• Grade 1

• Grade 2

• All of the above

Multiple Select

As students learn phonics and word recognition, they should be able to:

(Check all that apply.)

• Know upper case and lower case letters by name

• Know the sound individual letters make

• Recognize grade level high frequency words

• Blend simple word parts to form a word

Multiple Choice

Relationship between sounds and their spellings

• Decoding

• Phonics

• sight-word method

Multiple Choice

Helps children hear how sounds are put together to make words

• oral blending

• oral segmentation

• grapheme

Multiple Choice

Decoding means...

• Converting the printed word into spoken language

• relationship between sounds and their spellings

• The understanding or insight that a word is made up of a series of discreet sounds

Multiple Choice

Knowing the names of the letters and the sounds they represent

• alphabet recognition

• phonemic awareness

Multiple Choice

Best for at risk readers

• explicit instruction

• implicit instruction

Multiple Choice

Which approach blends individual sounds together to form words (e.g., c-a-t/cat)?

• Analytic

• Synthetic

Open Ended

What did you realize from the activity?

Open Ended

Why do you think it is important to know how to teach decoding and word recognition skills?

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