factors in adequate progress in literacy achievement

1. Factors in Adequate Progress in Literacy Achievement A working understanding of how sounds are represented alphabetically Sufficient practice in reading to achieve fluency with different kinds of texts Sufficient background knowledge and vocabulary to render written texts meaningful Control over procedures for monitoring comprehension and repairing misunderstandings Interest and motivation to read for a variety of purposes

3. The Phonics Approach Gradual movement into word units and comprehension Sound/letter correspondence foundation established Sight-word instruction only for words not decodable by phonics Emphasizes smaller than word level language units

4. Phoneme to Grapheme Relationships

5. English Phonics Consonants and vowels Consonant blends and digraphs Long and short vowels R-controlled vowels Vowel digraphs Diphthongs Homophones & homographs

6. English Syllable Patterns Closed: Short vowel ending with consonant Open: Long vowel, no consonant ending Vowel Digraph: vowel spelled with 2+ letters C-le at the ends of words R-controlled vowel Vowel-consonant-e long vowel pattern Idiosyncratic

8. Traditional Approaches to Phonics Instruction Are synthetic approaches using part to whole with segmentation and blending of letters into words Begin with teaching individual letters and letter-sound correspondences May involve kinesthetic activities, i.e., Orton-Gillingham, Zoo Phonics Require direct instruction based on a behavioral analysis of decoding. I.e., Distar

9. Contemporary Phonics Approaches Spelling-based principles such as Word Study or Making Words that involve sorting or making words based on students’ developmental level Analogy-based approaches where students decode words based on known words or word parts Embedded phonics where students where instruction occurs in the context of authentic reading and writing experiences

10. Word Study(Bear, Invernezzi, Templeton & Johnston) Picture sorts Concept sorts Letter-sound correspondence sorts Same-vowel word families Mixed-vowel word families Word Hunt Word Bank Word Wall High-frequency word study Word strips Word Study Notebooks Dictation Word games