Learning Objectives

• Understand how spoken language merges with written language to contribute to automatic word recognition.
• Be familiar with the Adams Model of Skilled Reading and Ehri’s Phases of Word Recognition Development.

Key Vocabulary

decoding

Learning Objectives

• Understand the relationship between phonics instruction and students’ understanding of the alphabetic principle.
• Recognize the characteristics of systematic and explicit phonics instruction.
• Be familiar with the basic principles of good phonics instruction.
• Identify the components of an explicit phonics lesson sequence.
• Be familiar with the general sequence for introducing phonic elements.
• Identify and demonstrate four blending routines.
• Describe the purpose and uses of decodable text.
• Describe the use and limitations of phonograms in beginning reading instruction.
• Describe the purpose of word work, and give examples of word-work activities.
• Be familiar with effective instructional strategies, practices, and activities for teaching phonics.

Key Vocabulary

alphabetic principle
analogy phonics
analytic phonics
authentic text
automatic word recognition
automaticity
CCVC words
consonant digraph
continuous blending
corrective feedback
CVC words
CVCe words
decodable text
decoding
embedded phonics
explicit phonics
phonic elements
phonics scope & sequence
phonograms

Learning Objectives

• Identify the general characteristics of an irregular word.
• Identify and describe the two types of irregular words.
• Describe the characteristics of a high-frequency word.
• Identify two factors that determine the difficulty of an irregular word.
• Describe the guidelines for teaching irregular words.
• Be familiar with effective instructional strategies, practices, and activities for teaching irregular word reading.

Key Vocabulary

function words
high-frequency words
irregular words
permanently irregular words
regular words
temporarily irregular words

Learning Objectives

• Recognize the importance of knowing how to decode multisyllabic words.
• Explain three different evidence-based approaches for teaching students how to decode multisyllabic words.
• Explain how recognition of syllable types and division principles can help students decode multisyllabic words.
• Explain how recognition of root words and affixes can help students decode multisyllabic words.
• Describe the characteristics of flexible syllabication.
• Be familiar with effective instructional strategies, practices, and activities for teaching multisyllabic word reading.

Key Vocabulary

affix
chunk
closed syllable
flexible syllabication
multisyllabic word
open syllable
root word
syllabication
syllable division principles
syllable types
word part