Word Journey by Kathy Ganske provides a comprehensive approach to assessing and building children's word knowledge for grades K-8. The program is planned word study that can improve students' reading and writing skills. There are complete instructions that provide for implementing the Developmental Spelling Analysis (DSA), an easy-to-use assessment tool, and for tailoring instruction to learners' strengths and weaknesses. It addresses the Common Core State Standards in this program.
There are numerous word lists, student work samples, and "Literature Links” that are included a great source of book list, along with 27 reproducible forms. There is a word inventory that enables teachers to quickly and easily evaluate students' stages of spelling development their knowledge of important orthographic features. Guidelines are set forth for engaging students in hands-on word study that is tailored to their specific strengths and weaknesses.
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This book teaches children to become "word solvers": readers who can take words apart while reading for meaning, and writers who can construct words while writing to communicate. In the book there is a word study that includes systematically planned and applied experiences focusing on the elements of letters and words; writing, including how children use phoneme-grapheme relationships, word patterns, and principles to develop spelling ability; reading, including teaching children how to solve words with the use of phonics and visual-analysis skills as they read for meaning. This is a great book that includes practical information on how to engage in interactive writing and shared reading, how to use a word wall and word sorting, and how to use effective assessment
As students read, the teacher makes notes focusing on the words they struggle with. The teacher indicates which words the student has substituted, repeated, mispronounced, or doesn’t know. These words are called miscues. After the miscues are marked they are classified. “Only the words that students mispronounce or substitute can be analyzed; repetitions and omissions aren’t calculated’ (Tompkins p.85). Once the miscues have been evaluated, the miscue analysis will indicate which cues the reader over relies on and which they need to further develop. Running Records also helps calculate the percentage of miscues to determine whether or not the book is at the students reading level. The goal is to give students appropriate books for their reading levels. After the running record and miscue analysis, the teacher can analyze this information to introduce personalized strategies and lessons to develop a more fluent
This activity suits the child’s current stage of oral development will interest them and aid in them progressing in their oral development. Children at this stage of development enjoy listening to stories which is good not only for their receptive skills, but also for their expressive language (Fellows and Oakley, 2014), in all four key components of spoken language. It helps with phonemes by getting the child to focus on the phonological patterns throughout the text (Fellows and Oakley, 214). Syntax knowledge allows them to observe the sentence structure and grammar in the book which allows them to develop a stronger awareness of the syntax. Visual aids in storybooks can aid in the child in the understanding of semantics (Fellows and Oakley’s), as the story is read aloud their receptive skills hear those more difficult words, when paired with a visual cue such as a picture in the book the child understands better and thus they are able to gain a better understanding of how to speak these difficult words. A better understanding of pragmatics can also be gained from storybooks as they understand how people communicate in society such as greetings and asking for things (Fellows and Oakley,
Lila is a second grade student who participated in a Primary Spelling Inventory and the reflection of her results are as follows. After her spelling inventory was finalized I noted that the student spelled ten of the twenty-six words correctly giving her a power score of 10/26. Most of the words that she mastered was in the Late emergent and early of Letter Name Alphabetic stage. I also noted that Lila accomplished 36 features out of 56 total features during her spelling inventory. Based on the results of the Primary Spelling Inventory the orthographic features that Lila recognizes are the consonants, short vowel, blends, and is familiar with diagraphs. Although she mastered blends which falls in the late Letter Name-Alphabetic stage she failed to master diagraphs which is the middle stage.
The child’s lexical inventory is well developed. She has no troubles with finding words to express her thoughts. Not many words are repeated and that illustrates that she has a vast vocabulary to where she does not have to borrow words. She does not over or under extend the usage of her words.
Through conducting Connor’s Running record, I learned that he is developing well as a begging reader. I assessed him using a book The Wheels on the Bus that was above his grade level, and the book was considered an instructional level for him based on his 90% accuracy. He is a kindergartener, meaning that he has had little experience reading and has room for improvement, however he is developing into a successful reader. Connor still needs to improve his comprehension due to the fact that he rarely used meaning or structural clues to help decode unknown words. I also learned that Connor is very successful in regards to identifying sight words. Every time that he read a sight word, he seemed confident and enjoyed coming across a word that he knew. Repetition throughout a text is something that works well for Connor’s reading ability, because he is also good at recognizing words that he has already read. Connor is developing fairly quickly for a kindergartener and the Running Record allowed me to assess his strengths and weaknesses to guide further instruction for his continued reading development.
In this time, it has become highly regarded by many teachers and administrators. The program uses a site word approach to teach emergent reading skills. The program uses a carefully sequenced, highly repetitive word recognition method combined with errorless learning. This approach eliminates incorrect responses and helps students view themselves as readers. The Edmark Reading Program ensures success to students of all ages who have not yet mastered beginning reading. This program is recommended for students with developmental disabilities or Autism, students with learning disabilities, Title 1 students, ESL students, preschool and kindergarten students who lack vocabulary development and non-readers who struggle with phonics. The programs
This article discussed writing development in early childhood, but focused on letters and invented spelling, early patterns in writing development, reading, writing, and speaking, and implications for practice and policy. This information will be useful to my project so that I can explain writing development in early childhood in great
Word prediction programs were originally developed to reduce typing for individuals with physical disabilities (MacArthur, 1998). Word prediction can help students during word processing by predicting a word the student intends to use. Predictions are based on spelling, syntax, and frequent or recent use of a word. This type of compensatory support prompts students who struggle with writing to use proper spelling, grammar and word choice. Word predication can also provide the slow or reluctant writer a means of developing and entering text confidently without spending all their time worrying a...
The first method discussed in the article was explicit instruction in vocabulary development. To learn vocabulary, phonics is a very important tool. The article states word knowledge seems to occupy an important middle ground in learning to read. That simply means students must understand how a word sounds, looks and means to understand the reading. Students’ today struggle with relating what they read to what they see in everyday life. The more words the students know is connected to how
Children also need to enhance their vocabulary. A practice that helps with this is for teachers to select different genres of readings mixed with questions asked before and after the text. Text not only should have different genres but also different types of wring styles formal and informal. Informal writing and informal writing helps build vocab and shows children the difference between writing that a author connects with . (informal) and writing the author does not connect with on a emotional level(formal ) . Different styles , and genres are introduced to preschoolers but it is important that that teachers realize that students at this age do not understand these concepts , however, children do understand that there is in fact differ...
Our students work extremely hard daily to be successful in reading comprehension and writing. However, for the previous past three years, phonics has been an area of concern. Phonics is an essential skill that is needed in developing proficiency in reading comprehension and writing. Reading Rockets examines “children 's reading development is dependent on their
Vocabulary depth tests are inherently productive in nature and provide various tasks, such as translating and productive writing. Although it is debated which approach gives the best results, Paribakht´s and Wesche´s (1993) Vocabulary Knowledge Scale (VKS) is a distinguished test in determining the stages of students´ developing knowledge. The VKS is a self-report test where students read a word and evaluate their depth of knowledge of that word. It is a five-category elicitation scale and provides a representation of students´ knowledge by using a five-point scoring scale as shown below in Figure
Aaron has alphabet books, letters, crayons and pencils, and writing paper as resources for literacy development. At home, Aaron is being taught at least one new word per day by an adult in the home. At home, Aaron is detailing conversations and is encouraged to speak in complete sentences. Aaron 's parents have a background of being good readers, have a large vocabulary, and have reading involvement with their child. Aaron 's household is contributing to help him learn the alphabet, write letters, write his name, and learn rhyming words. Aaron is learning so much each day in school and with the help received at home will only make him become better in
Young spellers from all across this nation and several others dedicate their lives to studying words and their patterns. The amount of work is mind-boggling, but there is no greater honor for a young word lover.
1. The development of new vocabulary, as indicated for speaking, is an activity which spans all the skills of language and will be an ongoing challenge for all pupils. Brainstorming activities and dictionary-based activities (described above) are both excellent means of leading into a written task. Brainstorming gets the pupils involved in the task from the outset and activates their thoughts and previous learning. Using a dictionary effectively is particularly important for pupils whose literacy in English is at a lower level than the peer group. This skill will transfer into other areas of learning.