Word recognition components
Word knowledge
word analysis
The main components of word recognition can be divided into two categories, word knowledge and word analysis skills.
Receptive Vocabulary
Context Clues
Expressive Vocabulary
Visual Analysis
Sight Words
Blending Polysyllabic Words
Sight Vocabulary
Structural Analysis:
Click on each + sign to get a definition, how you can support learners with word recogntiion, and an example.
When decoding a word, it is often useful to look at what comes before and after that word. The surrounding words can give readers helpful context clues about the meaning and structure of the new word, as well as how it is used.
Ways to Support: Build student's background knowledge, pre-reading discussions on key vocabulary within the text, picture walks.
Receptive vocabulary (vocabulary refers to all the words in a person’s language repertoire) refers to words that a person can comprehend and respond to, even if the person cannot produce those words. Ways to Develop-Reading quality literature and engaging students in conversation through play, reading, and writing.
At a glance Sight words are common words that kids recognize instantly without sounding them out.
High-Frequency Word List
Dolch List - In addition, this website provides free games, activities, flashcards, and Dolch lists for varying grades - http://www.dolchword.net/Links to an external site.
Fry Phrase List
Expressive language allows a person to communicate wants, needs, thoughts and opinions. Expressive language is the ability to request objects, make choices, ask questions, answer, and describe events.
Use Preferred Toys. One of the best ways to develop expressive language skills is while the individual is engaged in something they enjoy doing – this can drastically affect motivation and participation.
Engage in Arts and Crafts.
Tell Stories.
Play Guessing Games.
Maximize Media
Quickly identifying word parts such as word endings and blending to read words.
Ways to Support: Teaching students to blend word endings then compound words and finally other polysyllabic words.
Visual analysis is a skill that involves breaking syllables into smaller, known parts.
Ways to Support: Teach students how to recognize word families, onset/rime, and sound out words using syllables.
When using structural analysis, the reader breaks words down into their basic parts:
Prefixes – word parts located at the beginning of a word to change meaning
Roots – the basic meaningful part of a word
Suffixes – word parts attached to the end of a word; suffixes often alter the part of speech of the word
Ways to Support: Introduce common prefixes, suffixes, and root words, model for students how morphemes change the words meaning, and have students practice building words with prefixes, suffixes, and root words (see Appendix B8 and B9, pp.371-372 for common prefixes, suffixes, and root words).
A sight word vocabulary is the bank of vocabulary (the collection of words) that a person can instantly recognize with 100% accuracy. A person’s sight word vocabulary consists of words that do not have to be decoded, the process of translating print (seeing the letters and knowing their sounds) to the patterns of syllables and words.
Ways to Suppot- Reading quality literature, life experiences and virtual field trips, and making connections to background knowledge and schema.
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Word recognition components
Word knowledge
word analysis
The main components of word recognition can be divided into two categories, word knowledge and word analysis skills.
Receptive Vocabulary
Context Clues
Expressive Vocabulary
Visual Analysis
Sight Words
Blending Polysyllabic Words
Sight Vocabulary
Structural Analysis:
Click on each + sign to get a definition, how you can support learners with word recogntiion, and an example.
When decoding a word, it is often useful to look at what comes before and after that word. The surrounding words can give readers helpful context clues about the meaning and structure of the new word, as well as how it is used.
Ways to Support: Build student's background knowledge, pre-reading discussions on key vocabulary within the text, picture walks.
Receptive vocabulary (vocabulary refers to all the words in a person’s language repertoire) refers to words that a person can comprehend and respond to, even if the person cannot produce those words. Ways to Develop-Reading quality literature and engaging students in conversation through play, reading, and writing.
At a glance Sight words are common words that kids recognize instantly without sounding them out.
High-Frequency Word List Dolch List - In addition, this website provides free games, activities, flashcards, and Dolch lists for varying grades - http://www.dolchword.net/Links to an external site. Fry Phrase List
Expressive language allows a person to communicate wants, needs, thoughts and opinions. Expressive language is the ability to request objects, make choices, ask questions, answer, and describe events.
Use Preferred Toys. One of the best ways to develop expressive language skills is while the individual is engaged in something they enjoy doing – this can drastically affect motivation and participation. Engage in Arts and Crafts. Tell Stories. Play Guessing Games. Maximize Media
Quickly identifying word parts such as word endings and blending to read words.
Ways to Support: Teaching students to blend word endings then compound words and finally other polysyllabic words.
Visual analysis is a skill that involves breaking syllables into smaller, known parts.
Ways to Support: Teach students how to recognize word families, onset/rime, and sound out words using syllables.
When using structural analysis, the reader breaks words down into their basic parts: Prefixes – word parts located at the beginning of a word to change meaning Roots – the basic meaningful part of a word Suffixes – word parts attached to the end of a word; suffixes often alter the part of speech of the word
Ways to Support: Introduce common prefixes, suffixes, and root words, model for students how morphemes change the words meaning, and have students practice building words with prefixes, suffixes, and root words (see Appendix B8 and B9, pp.371-372 for common prefixes, suffixes, and root words).
A sight word vocabulary is the bank of vocabulary (the collection of words) that a person can instantly recognize with 100% accuracy. A person’s sight word vocabulary consists of words that do not have to be decoded, the process of translating print (seeing the letters and knowing their sounds) to the patterns of syllables and words.
Ways to Suppot- Reading quality literature, life experiences and virtual field trips, and making connections to background knowledge and schema.