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- Title: Connecting Rimes to Meaningful Contexts.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 197 KB
Description
Helping young children become successful literacy learners requires deliberate effort from classroom teachers. Demonstrating appropriate literacy behaviors, providing opportunities for practice and application, and nurturing a love of reading and writing all help promote a positive foundation for literacy success. More specifically, children need to develop competence and confidence with the semantic (reading for meaning), syntactic (using word order), and graphophonic (connecting sounds and print) cueing systems. Although the act of reading is primarily a meaning-making process, budding readers benefit from developing ease and facility in recognizing words during reading. Quick recognition of words provides readers with more focused energy for fluency and comprehension, and this direction is important for all children, including those with special learning needs. Children who struggle with reading usually have specific issues with word recognition and other reading skills and strategies. These individuals are sometimes reluctant to read and, therefore, can profit from instructional strategies that foster both word recognition and reading fluency (Salend, 2008). The professional literature provides a plethora of such strategies, including integrated processing for reading unknown words (Pemberton, 2003), syllable-based learning for breaking challenging words into syllables (Bhattacharya, 2006), varied prompting and cueing for grasping unfamiliar words (Gipe, 2006), and using lyrics and words from songs and poems to teach phonological awareness (Salend, 2008). These and other strategies are particularly helpful when children have opportunities to use them in the context of interesting and meaningful books and are supported in their efforts by caring and effective teachers who know how to differentiate instruction.