Word Recognition
Literacy Portfolio, Marilyn Willis
Word Recognition- the ability to automatically recognize a large bank of words commonly referred to as sight words, enabling emergent readers to comprehend text and read with an organized and analytical proficiency.
Rationale:
Students best learn how to identify words and their literal meaning when they are able to process larger portions of text efficiently when encountered within the context of written language. Word analysis skills and automatic word recognition are the foundation for a reader becoming proficient at being able to make sense of any written text. When exposed to full text, being able to identify known words quickly, decode unfamiliar words using word analysis skills and utilizing what information they already possess from the four cueing systems, readers are able to grasp a true comprehension of the text they are reading.
Students use what they infer from their receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, sight vocabulary and sight words to expand their reading knowledge and process information.
Guided Reading Groups
High Frequency Word Flashcards
" One hundred words account for almost half of all the words we read and write. Ten words -the, of, and, a, to , in, is, you, that, and it - account for almost one quarter of all the words we read and write". (Cunningham, 2004)
Reading Apps and Technology
relaxing way and permits the listener to fully engage in literature in a visual and auditory way. The story is read to them and words are followed and highlighted as they are pronounced. The reader is gaining sight word knowledge and building their receptive word bank while correlating with information stored the four cueing systems.