Beginning Readers & High-Frequency vs. Sight Words

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What reader does this describe?

• Word Recognition strategies

• Sight words (CVC words)

• Concept of Print

• Consonant dominant

• Partial Alphabetic principle

• K-1st

Beginning Readers

T/F - Beginning readers have developed concept of print.

T. They know that words have meaning

Letter retains its own sound

(hear BOTH sounds)

Blends

Single sound

Digraph

Identify the blend and the digraph

Brush

Br - blend

Sh - digraph

You should teach ___ vowel patterns first. Why?

short

allows to focus on two chunks onset and rime

Onset

initial consonant

Rime

remaining sounds in the syllable

T/F - Bat, Hat, Cat are all word families but not short vowel patterns.

F, short a

If a student omits blends (brush) + short vowels (_ap), they have ____ phonemic awareness. 

Partial

T/F - Short vowels and consonants must be known before sorting and identifying blends and digraphs.

T

blends and digraphs build on short vowels

Letters that use nose instead of mouth

—> m, n 

Nasals

What is the difference between sight words and high-frequency words?

hfw require instruction

You can turn ___ into ____.

— Word Bank —-

Hfw

Sight words

sight words 

hfw

A word bank is a collection of known words. The steps are…

1. Write name

2. Write a list of words you know

3. Prompt them to see how many hfw they can write

Step number 3 focuses on what phonemic skills?

Segmenting and mapping

Decodable texts

books readers can sound out since they contain hfw and letter-sounds they’re familiar with 

Sequenced to progressively harder words with consistent letter-sound relationships

Sled, Slip, Spin, Slop = S blend

Decodables