Words work together

In this stage:

• study generalizations that govern how syllables are joined
• study how affixes (pre-fixes and suffixes) affect word meaning

Visit Sharon Radcliffe Scenario

Look for and record, how often her language asks her students to discover something?

Students are at the Intermediate Stage of Reading--may read 140 wpm in narrative texts, more if silent reading. (Hasbrouguch & Tindal,2006)

Vocabulary-know the 3 Tier

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• Tier 1-words
• Tier 2-general academic words
• Tier 3 domain-academic words

Steps to learning words

• Examine the word for meaningful parts.
• Look at the base, see if you know, develop a related word.

Learning words

• If you don't know it, look it up (student dictionary)
• Read the new word on a chart or word study notebook

Look at less on suffixes and multisyllabic words

Know Early, Middle Late stages