Word Recognition
By Lauren Martin
What is word recognition?
-Recognizing words without conscious attention
-Recognition words without attending to every letter
-Using parts of words to quickly identify new words
-Connecting unknown words to known words (analogies)
-Connecting spelling with word meaning (homonyms, plurals, tenses, ext.)
Great Opening Activities For Word Recognition
Sight Word Hopscotch
My Book of CVC Words
App
Rationale
For students to be successful at word recognition this automaticity requires the brain to process both visual and nonvisual information (Smith, 2005). Every time a reader identifies a letter or word, the brain is involved in a decision, "and the amount of information required to make the decision depends on the number of alternatives there are" (Smith, 1978, p.24).
Artifacts
Build a Word
Compound Word Eggs
Prefixes and Suffixes Puzzles
Word Recognition Research and Resources
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/word-recognition
I have selected a link that will direct you to the Reading Rocket's webpage on word recognition. This page includes a lot of references and recourses for teacher and parents to refer to when teaching what the assessment measures when it should be assessed, examples of questions, and the age or grade at which the assessment should be mastered. This is a great reference tool to beginning early childhood teachers as they begin to teach a child to read, spell, and recognize words.