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PHONICS
PHONEMIC AWARENESS
COMPREHENSION
VOCABULARY
FLUENCY
Each day, we practice our weekly spelling words using letter blocks while discussing consonants, vowels, blends, digraphs, etc. (10 min.) PHONICS, PHONEMIC AWARENESS
Then we read a short story discussing each page as we go. (15 min.)
We take these books home a few nights a week for extra practice.
VOCABULARY, COMPREHENSION, FLUENCY
Our final activity is a computer game that reinforces the phonics and spelling skills the students are working on in their regular classroom. (5 min.)
DEFINITION OF TERMS:
Phonics - Based on two parts:
Alphabetic Understanding - Words are composed of letters that represent sounds, and
Phonological Recoding - Using systematic relationships between letters and phonemes (letter-sound correspondence) to retrieve the pronunciation of an unknown printed string or to spell.
Phonemic Awareness - The awareness and understanding of the sound structure of our language, that "cat" is composed of the sounds
/k/ /a/ /t/.
Comprehension - The complex cognitive process involving the intentional interaction between reader and text to extract meaning.
Vocabulary - The ability to understand and use words to acquire and convey meaning.
Fluency - (Accuracy and Fluency with Connected Text) - Readers who are not fluent at decoding are not able to focus their attentional resources on comprehension.
