Question: To you, what is the most important lesson we can teach kids about word recognition.
There are many valuable lessons. However, the question is where do we begin. It depends on the level of the student. In our textbook, we are present with fifteen vocabulary builders with several examples of or words builders in the index.
I feel that teaching/revisit the section on the common spelling rules will be of great benefit to building their vocabulary. (pg. 346-349). As Professor Steffes stated "Fry's Instant Words," (pg. 327 - 333). I would provide those pages to the students the first day of class and perhaps laminate the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary.
I am having a hard time picking the most important because I feel it depends on the student needs.
I agree that it is hard to find a "one size fits all" strategy. Getting a sample of your class make up and skills level is a great starting point to find what groups, or individuals, need a particular strategy.
ReplyDeleteLaminating the basic sight word vocabulary list would be a great way to have the words in front of the students all the time. I am sure if they saw them everyday, it would help add them to their vocabulary.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to pick because a lot of what we do as teachers depends on where our students are at. It is great to have all of these strategies from our book that we can fall back to when we are presented with certain issues within our classroom.
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