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Get Ready to Huddle! Discover Intensive Phonics
(4th - Adult) Huddle 2nd Tuesday of each month
at 2 pm MT Please Call 1-888-447-7153 Passcode
8768292 Presented by Shantell Berrett
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Does Discover Intensive Phonics help with reading
comprehension?

• YES!

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National Reading Panel Report

• Teaching students to break apart and manipulate
  the sounds in words (phonemic awareness)
• Teaching them that these sounds are represented
  by letters of the alphabet which can then be
  blended together to form words (phonics)
• Having them practice what they've learned by
  reading aloud with guidance and feedback (guided
  oral reading)
• Applying reading comprehension strategies to
  guide and improve reading comprehension

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Synthetic Phonics Instruction

• This type of phonics instruction consists of
  teaching a planned sequence of phonics elements,
  rather than highlighting elements as they happen
  to appear in a text.
• Here again, the evidence was so strong that the
  panel concluded that systematic phonics
  instruction is appropriate for routine classroom
  instruction.

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Synthetic Phonics Instruction

• Synthetic phonics instruction consists of
  teaching students to explicitly convert letters
  into phonemes and then blend the phonemes to form
  words.
• Moreover, systematic synthetic phonics
  instruction was significantly more effective in
  improving the reading skills of students from low
  socioeconomic levels.

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Decoding Strategies in Second Language Reading

• Explicit instruction in decoding strategies
• Opportunities to practice using a variety of
  strategies
• COMPREHENSION FLUENCY

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What About the 30?
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Consistent Pattern
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Dr. Jean Chall, Harvard University
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Three Essential Areas to Develop Reading
Comprehension

• Vocabulary development
• Text comprehension instruction
• Teacher preparation and comprehension strategies
  instruction

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Teaching Vocabulary

• Words should be taught in context
• Repetition and multiple exposure
• Software

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• When you think of vocabulary, there is a good
  chance that you think of long lists of words from
  social studies or science textbooks, spelling
  word lists, or even the humongous lists of terms
  to study for college entrance exams. Zillions of
  flash cards also may come to mind. No doubt you
  share the common childhood experience of having
  to "go look up the words in a dictionary, write
  the definition, and then write a sentence using
  the term" but how much of that vocabulary do
  you remember now? Do you remember how you could
  rote copy the definition of a term as part of a
  homework assignment, but have no real idea what
  the definition meant and still get an 'A' on the
  assignment?
• --Edwin Ellis

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Guidelines for selecting to-be-learned vocabulary
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Comprehension Strategies

• Connecting
• Questioning
• Visualizing
• Inferring
• Summarizing

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Comprehension Resources
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Comprehension Resources
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What should comprehension instruction be
instruction of?

• Teach decoding skills
• Encourage the development of sight words
• Teach students to use semantic context cues to
  evaluate whether decodings are accurate
• Teach vocabulary meanings
• Encourage extensive reading
• Teach self-regulated use of comprehension
  strategies

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Summary

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• Phonemic awareness must be addressed and decoding
  strategies taught through systematic, synthetic,
  sequential phonics that is multi-sensory.
• Vocabulary should be taught in context with
  several opportunities offered to work with and
  elaborate the words connecting background
  knowledge for help with retention.
• Effective comprehension strategies such as
  connections, questions, visualizing and
  summarizing must be taught as well.

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