word study notes
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CVC pattern (sat, chin)
regardless of how many consonants are on either side of a SINGLE vowel - will usually stand for a "short" vowel sound.
- What is the purpose of word study? (2)
- It increases specific knowledge of words - the spelling and meaning of individual words
- The English spelling system is alphabetic because
- it represents the relationship between letters and sounds
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In the VCCV pattern (robber)
- the first vowel is usually short.
- Research for more than 20 years has established how children learn
- the specific features of words as well as the order in which they learn them.
- Word study instruction must match
- the needs of the child.
- What is the purpose of word study? (1)
- It teaches students to examine words to discover the regularities, patterns, and rules of English orthography needed to read and spell
- Teach to where a child
- "is at"
- If the student is puzzling over whether "Robber" has one or two b's, if they know the VCCV pattern
- they can make a good guess at two b's.
- What are the three levels of English orthography?
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Alphabet
Pattern
Meaning - Word study begins with
- what each child knows about the cumulative aspects of English spelling.
- Children's spellings provide
- a direct window into how they think the system works.
- In the VCV pattern, (radar, begin)...
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the first vowel is usually long.
- Syllables follow
- spelling patterns, too.
- Interpret what a child does when she spells, target that child's "zone of proximal development" and then
- plan word study that a student is conceptually ready to master.
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An example of comparing and contrasting words by consistent spelling patterns
associated with categories of sound: -
ay - play, day, tray
and
ai- wait, rain, chain - The pattern layer of English orthography
- overlays the alphabetic layer.
- What is written language all about?
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-Letter sound correspondences
-phonics
-spelling patterns
-high frequency word recognition
-decoding strategies
-word use and meanings and other word skills - The child who writes LT
- has made a quantum leap, because they have grasped that there systematic matches between sounds and letters that must be made when writing.
- What kind of reader is a child who writes LT for light?
- A beginning reader
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An early letter name speller LT for light
is a - beginning reader
- Emergent stage
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scribbles
letter-like forms
random letters that have no phonetic relationship with the words they believe they are writing - In Words Their Way, the word stage is used as
- a metaphor to inform instruction.
- Stages are marked by broad qualitative shifts
- in the types of spelling errors children commit as well as behavioral changes in their reading and writing.
- An example of categorizing words by meaning, use, and parts of speech:
- Admiration is spelled with an "i" because it comes from the word admire.
- An example of comparing and contrasting words by sounds so one can categorized similary sounds and associate them consistently with letters:
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short e- bed, leg, net, neck
and
short i- sit, list, pick - Reading and spelling are
- integrally related.
- There is remarkable consistency between
- the stages of spelling development and stages of reading development.
- Students expand their vocabulary by
- comparing one concept with another
- The better a reader knowledge of the system...
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the better they are at decoding and unfamiliar word,
inventing a spelling or
guessing a word's meaning - What are the five threads of literacy?
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Oral language
Stories
Reading
Writing
Orthography - During the primary years, word knowledge is primarily ...
- aural
- Word study activities mimic
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basic cognitive learning processes.
- Word Study activities are
- hands on activities.
- The basic cognitive learning processes that wrod study activities mimic are:
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-comparing and contrasting categories of word features
and
-discovering similarities and differences within and between categories - During word study, words are sorted in routines which
- require children to examine, discriminate and make critical judgements about speech sounds, word structures, spelling patterns and meaning
- CVCe AND CVVC patterns
- very often represent long vowel sounds.
- Letters can be matched
- somtimes singly, sometimes in pairs- to sounds from left to right to come up with words
- The alphabetic principle in English spelling is
- the first layer of information, at work
- Word study examines words
- in order to reveal consistencies within the written language system
- Word study helps students master
- the recognition, spelling, and meaning of specific words
- Learners who lack knowledge about the general spelling system are left with
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rote memorization which takes longer and is more easily forgotten
- As you learn more about words,
- your brain comes to operate in terms of letter patterns rather than individual letters.
- Examples of groups of letters that have meaning are
- prefixes, suffixes, Greak and Latin roots.
- What is the layer or orthography that overarches alphabet and pattern?
- Meaning
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Often a
CVVC pattern in a single syllable means -
the word has a long vowel sound -
the second vowel letter is silent but serves to indicate that the first vowel letter is long. - What is the best way to develop fast, accurate perception of word features?
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to engage in meaningful reading and writing and
multiple opportunities to examine those same words out of context, in isolation, in all their glory