Word Study for Beginners

The Alphabetic Stage

What is the Alphabetic Stage?

This is a period of beginnings. What are they beginning to do?

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• Read and write in a conventional way.
• Learn words and actual text.
• Writing become readable to them and others.

But they need something for this to happen

scaffolding

To see this in action

With a partner, answer what scaffolding is occurring?

What happens at the Literacy Development Stage?

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• Phonological awareness is understood
• The Concept of Word in text with reach maturity.

What will they be able to do?

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• able to isolate vowels and to pull apart tightly meshed blends
• Learn the correspondence that represent them, including initial and final consonants, digraphs, blends, and short vowels.
• building sight words.

During this stage, students transition from depending on predictable reading with support to relying on their memory. Expands vocabulary and decodes words.

How do you know they are beginning to understand concept of words in texts?

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• Can track or fingerprint with a memorized text without getting off track on a two-syllable word.

two levels, do you know what they are?

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• Rudimentary
• Fixed

At this stage, we need to develop SIGHT WORDS

Any words that are stored completely enough in memory to be recognized automatically and consistently in and out of context.

We also need to build vocabulary at this stage.

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• need to discuss word meanings
• Read aloud
• experiment with complex sentence structure
• sophisticated synonyms-weather
• enrich simple text
• concept sorts

Let us look with a partner at some situations and how you might respond to them.

Beginning reader who is not looking enough at the visual information (not using his knowledge of letter/sound correspondence to check the words)

Let us look at MVS and its importance

Beginning reader who uses too much visual information (V) and not enough (M) and structure (S)

Beginning reader who does not know all of his or her letters and sounds

Beginning reader who misreads the endings of words and doesn't check

Beginning reader who does not know of his or her letters and sounds

Child who is ready to use some visual information beyond the first letter, but is unsure how

Don't worry, this comes with practice and working with kids. Practice. Reflect. Practice more.