Monday, November 11, 2013

Early Readers Need Variable Consonant Sounds

Most of us believe that when beginning to teach consonant sounds we should select word examples that have consistent sounds. WRONG, discovered researchers who were quite surprised that students could read words they had never seen before After several days with revised phonics skills, the students applied their newly learned skills to tasks they hadn't before...successfully! A principal of one of the participating schools in the study suggested that this varied method could be used in other teaching, such as learning vocabulary.
Have you done this before?  If not will you try it with your Title I students?  Share results with your colleagues.

Variation on Traditional Phonics Helps Early Readers, Study Says.  Julie Rasicot. 11.2.12. Education Week - The Early Years.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/early_years/2012/11/a_variation_on_the_use.html?cmp=ENL-CM-NEWS2

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