LITERACY: BIG 5

PHONEMIC AWARENESS

• The ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in spoken words.
• Tip: Breaking or segmenting a word into separate sounds

PHONEMIC AWARENESS CONT.

• Phonemic awareness is not phonics
• Tip: isolating the word and saying the first or last sound of the word

PHONICS

• The relationship between the letters of written language and the individual sounds of spoken language

PHONICS

• Helps students to read words in isolation and text
• Phonics through spelling- segment words into phonemes and to make words by writing letters for phonemes

FLUENCY

• The ability to read a text accurately and quickly
• Bridge between word recognition and comprehension
• Dividing text into meaningful chunks can help readers to understand the text more deeply

VOCABULARY

• The words we must know to communicate effectively
• Oral vocab: Words we use in speaking and listening
• Reading vocab: Words we recognize or use in print

VOCABULARY CONT.

• Most vocabulary is learned indirectly
• Words that represent complex concepts should be taught with direct instruction

COMPREHENSION

• When readers are able to fully understand what they are reading
• Use experiences, knowledge, and reading strategies to comprehend what they are reading as they go

COMPREHENSION CONT.

• Students are able to monitor their comprehension will understand when they do and when they don’t
• Students can look back through the text, look forward in the text, or restate the difficult sentence or passage