Overview
Word recognition is a critical skill for the developing reader.
Knowledge of sight words and efficiency in word recognition help children develop the ability to read.
Competent readers and writers can:
- fluently identify high frequency words
- use variety of decoding strategies
Competent readers and writers do this through:
- Sound-symbol correspondence
- analogies (visual/sound patterns)
Children will develop speed and accuracy with increasingly complex pieces of written language.
In an effective balanced literacy program, teachers:
- foster environmental print awareness.
- provide continuous opportunities for children to reread familiar text.
- have students match names to class helpers' charts.
- encourage children to identify known words in their "daily news" contributions.
- develop individual and class dictionaries or word boxes, containing thematic, content and interesting words.
- read frequently.
- have student put together and take apart sight words with magnetic letters.
- build a word wall, containing high frequency words and words useful for analogies.
- use a variety of mediums to write words.
Intervention activities must be repeated continuously in a print rich environment, while children are immersed in the process of reading and writing.
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