Orthographic Awareness: Where Do Words Come From?

1. Your Logo Here Orthographic Awareness:Where Do Words Come From? DeKalb R.E.A.D.S. Office of Reading/Language Arts Dr. Goldye J. Sanders, Executive Director

2. Redefining Success in Reading “ True readers and writers are ‘self-winding’ and choose to read and write well beyond the care and guidance of the school system.” Margaret Mooney, 1991 Developing Life-long Readers

3. What are the domains of a balanced literacy approach? • Reading • Writing • Listening • Speaking • Thinking • Viewing • Presenting

4. What are the six components of DeKalb R.E.A.D.S.? • Phonological Awareness • Alphabetic Awareness • Print Awareness • Orthographic Awareness • Comprehension • Reading Practice

5. Partner Interview • Provide 3 pieces of professional information about yourself • Provide 2 pieces of personal information • Provide 1 thing you especially enjoy doing After you have this information, compose a short summary about the person you interviewed.

6. Research Indicates… The most critical factor underlying fluent word reading is the ability to recognize letters, spelling patterns, and whole words, effortlessly, automatically, and visually. Orthographic awareness in a balanced literacy approach promotes automatic recognition and production of spelling patterns, morphological units, and writing conventions.

7. Word Origins and Chunking Ortho Graphic Ortho Latin/Greek Straight, Upright, Correct Graphic Latin/Greek Something written or pictorial The aspect of language concerned with letters and their sequences in words.

8. Morphological Units Morphological units are the smallest units of speech that have meaning. • Free (stand alone as a unit of meaning) • Bound (must be used with words) • Derivational (add or change the meaning) • Inflectional (do not change grammatical category) Read Reader Ready Reads

9. Orthographic Awareness A garmish, curdsey franker fidly glopped a pharled prozu.

10. Where Words Come From • By middle school, students should focus on derivations and etymologies. They should learn how English has borrowed words from other languages, particularly Latin and Greek, which are very systematic. Through study of derivations and etymologies, students get a sense of the history of the English language.

11. Where Words Come From …we cannot directly teach the meaning of all words, and sometimes the context just leave students clueless, therefore we also must help dependent readers increase their word knowledge by teaching them how words work… Beers, 2003

12. Foreign Words and Phrases status quo et cetera addenda entourage persona non grata protege

13. Vocabulary Trees Teach the meanings of prefixes, roots, and suffixes.

14. River of English

15. Root Webs

16. Recognize Those Prefixes Multiple exposures and revisiting key words are important for retention.

17. Word Walls Writing Memory Spelling Vocabulary Portable

18. The Reading Teacher’s Book of Listsby Edward Fye, Jacqueline Kress, and Dona Fountoukidis

19. Orthographic Activities • Word Walls • Vocabulary Trees • River of English • Root Webs • Recognize Those Prefixes

20. Spelling Words Walls Homonym Lists Thematic Spelling School Words Spelling Rules Spelling Patterns When Kids Can’t Read:What Teachers Can Do

21. “Many of us never anticipated needing to help students learn to read when we first entered this profession. Many of us with secondary certificates had nothing more than a content area reading course (if that) in our teacher preparation courses….” Beers, 2003