TIC-TAC-TOE GAME

tic-tac-toe GAME

Use "x" for visually based, "o" for Science of reading based

Coding "tricky" Parts

Using Elkonin boxes

Using Flashcards

Stampingthe Letters

Putting on sound wall

Telling students to use picture clues as a decoding strategy

Chanting theLetters

segmenting Sounds

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Stamping high frequency words is a visual based strategy. This is not the most effective way to encourage orthographic mapping because the child is not matching phonemes to letters. Modify this activity by having students stamp into an Elkonin box. In this way, students can match phonemes to graphemes.

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Using flashcards is a visual based strategy. Students may later have trouble decoding the words in context. It is also more likely that the words will be stored in short term memory. A modification idea could be to have students segment the word on the flashcard and "sky write" in the air for each sound.

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Having kids sort into word shape boxes does not help students decode. It can actually encourage guessing instead of attending to all letters during in-context reading. An alternative would be to have students move letters into an Elkonin box based on the sounds.

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Chanting letters of high frequency words does little to lock the word into long term memory. As an alternative, try taking the word apart and matching up the phonemes to the graphemes. You could even use ten frames for this! Phoneme chips on the top row with corresponding letters on the bottom.

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ahhhh....the infamous beanie baby decoding poster. As cute as the stuffed animals are this is not a science based practice. Looking for picture clues brings student attention away from the text. Students may be able to read the word that day in that text, but the student will gain no benefit when they encounter that word without picture support. Instead, opt to provide support by helping them analyze the letters and blend the chunks to decode. Less cute, but more effective.

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Oh yeah! Using Elkonin boxes are a great way to encourage orthographic mapping! Students are provided with a concrete framework to think about phoneme/grapheme correspondence.

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Coding tricky parts encourages students to really analyze how graphemes and phonemes match up. Most of the time only 1 part of the word is irregular so students are able to commit the tricky part to memory while still decoding the rest of the word.

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Not only do sound walls support students with learning high frequency words, they support students in retaining and learning to read unfamiliar words on their own. A sound wall does the work of matching our sounds to print. This is different from a word wall which goes from print to sounds.

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Practicing segmenting high frequency words can provide a support to students when they match corresponding graphemes.

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