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Activity
1 ~~ Sight Vocabulary and Word Identification Strategies (45 minutes)
Objective: Familiarize yourself with the teaching process for building a Word Wall.
In Session 2, you learned about phonics and
activities for recognizing words. To complete this segment, familiarize yourself
with Janiel Wagstaff's teaching process for building a Word Wall, a bulletin board of high frequency words which have familiar spelling patterns. Also, explore the development of self-monitoring behaviors in beginning readers.
Activity: Read "Building Practical Knowledge of Letter-Sound
Correspondences: A Beginner's Word Wall and Beyond" (The Reading Teacher,
vol. 51, Dec. 1997/Jan. 1998, pp. 298-304) by Janiel Wagstaff, and then respond to the questions below.
Question 1
Describe the sequence of activities Wagstaff uses to make a Word Wall for one week. |
Question 2
What are the advantages of the process for teaching letter-sound relationships using a Word Wall? |
Now check yourself by comparing your responses
with the important information below.
- Janiel Wagstaff's sequence for building a Word Wall:
- Read, recite and dramatize a nursery
rhyme.
- Select key words from the rhyme for
later posting on the Word Wall.
- Say and write beginning sounds from
those words on a daily basis.
- Add words to the word wall.
- Add nursery rhymes to students' favorite
folders.
- Letter sound knowledge is reinforced
through appropriate word play.
- Learning is purposeful rather than done
in isolation (e.g.,Letter of the Week).
- The Word Wall lessons teach phonemic
awareness and letter-sound knowledge.
How do you rate? Use the following rubric
to give yourself a score.
3 - responded with most of the items in the Word Wall sequence
and mentioned three reasons the Word Wall process is valuable.
2 - responded with some of the items in the Word Wall sequence
and mentioned at least two reasons the Word Wall process is valuable.
1 -responded with two items in the Word Wall sequence and mentioned
at least one reason the Word Wall process is valuable.
Now, proceed to Activity
2
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