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Teaching Reading K-2 Workshop.

Key Terms | About This Workshop

Word Study and Fluency: Before You Watch

Session 3

Before You Watch

Video Summary

Session Preparation

Watch the Video

Examine the Topic

Put It Into Practice

Wrap Up

Session Preparation

Materials Needed.

Several books with good rimes you use with your students.

Throughout this session, questions are posed to guide you through the topic. If you are working in a group discuss your responses; if you are working alone reflect on them in your journal.

To prepare for the workshop session you will tap your prior knowledge, read two articles on word study and fluency, and review important terms.

1

What do you already know?

Print and complete the Word Study Concept Chart (PDF)

Assignment.

Save your Word Study Chart to revise at the end of the session.
2

Read this article:

How To Teach Phonics Part: 1 | 2 | 3 (PDF)
Cunningham, P. M., and J. W. Cunningham. "What We Know About How To Teach Phonics." In Farstrup, S. E., and S. J. Samuels eds. What Research Has To Say About Reading Instruction, 87-109. Newark, Del.: International Reading Association, 2000. www.reading.org
3

Review these important terms:

Automaticity
Emergent literacy
Explicit instruction
Fluency
Opportunistic instruction
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Sight vocabulary
4

Revise your chart

Return to your Word Study Concept Chart. Add any new thoughts, ideas, or questions based on the reading and review of important terms.

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