III: DECODING AND WORD STUDY

Objectives

As a result of reading and studying this chapter students will be able to:

• Name and describe the four processors of the Adams Model of Skilled Reading
• Name and describe the five phases of Ehri's Phases of Word Recognition Development
• Define decoding and recognize its importance to the development of proficient reading

Key Terms

• Orthographic processor
• Phonological processor
• Pre-alphabetic Phase
• Partial Alphabetic Phase
• Full Alphabetic Phase
• Consolidated Alphabetic Phase
• Automatic Phase
• Decoding

Assessment

Instructional PowerPoint

Web Resources

The following websites and resources may be useful to reading teachers in planning and implementing their lessons.

• Between the Lions: Chicken Stacker
  This interactive game is fun and an engaging way to reinforce vowel sounds and the CVC pattern with students.
• Word Family Sort
  This website includes an interactive game in which students can practice their word sorting skills by choosing one of five short vowels and completing a word family chart. Students can also print their completed word family charts for later reference.
• Phonics Instruction
  The website contains highlights of the evidence based research about phonics instruction presented by the National Institute for Literacy. The website also provides tips for obtaining the research referenced in the article and contact information for source organizations.
• Phonic Reading Lessons: Skills and Practice
  This phonics program was created by Academic Therapy Publications and contains easy-to-use 10-15 minute lessons that are appropriate for students with learning disabilities.
• Alphabetic Understanding Lessons: Decoding Regular Words
  Here are three lesson plans produced by the University of Texas that explore decoding CVC words using a variety of instructional methods. The lessons cover silently sounding out words and swapping letters to create new words.
• Elkonin Box Resources
  Visitors can choose from over 50 Elkonin box activity templates. Each template has a picture of the word and blank boxes for students to reinforce sound/spelling correspondences.
• Irregular Word Activities
  This helpful classroom resource contains a collection of approximately 100 activities. The collection also includes materials created and contributed by teachers and educators across the nation.
• Syllabication Rules
  An interactive tutorial for students in grades 3 and 4 that presents syllabication rules and a series of syllabication activities that prompt students to apply these rules.
• Syllables — Dividing Words Into Syllables
  This website contains a collection of interactive activities that reinforce multisyllabic word reading. The activities found on this website include a matching game, a concentration game, a word search, and flashcards.