after all the sounds have been mastered. WORD RECOGNITION Word recognition refers to the ability to identify, read, and analyze the meaning attached to the word. family bat cat fat hat rat family can fan man pan tan van family bad Dad mad pad sad family bar car far war family bed led red family Ben hen men ten family bin pin sin tin win family fit hit kit sit family fill hill kill mill family bell dell fell hell yell family fair hair pair family bear fear hear gear tear wear year family get jet net pet wet family boat coat goat family bore more family bone cone tone family date gate hate late Service WORDS After the children are able to read words, the service words or the basic sight words are taught to enable the children to read phrase and sentences. a) articles: a, a, the b) pronouns: he, she, it, I, my, mine, our, ours, they, them, etc. c) prepositions: on, in, for, to, under, over, by, with, etc. d) conjunctions: and, but, etc. e) verbs: has, have, do, does, done, etc. There are five main categories of word analysis or word attack skills: 1. Configuration clues house - give the overall characteris- tics of how a word looks. 2. Context clues - come from the meaning of the word as it is used in a sentence (semantic clue) or from guessing what word is coming next according to the way a reader often uses oral language (syntactic clue). EXAMPLES: a. The barking _____ chased the cat. (goat, dog, pig) b. How much capital do you need?
1) money invested for business 2) most important town or city of a province 3) higher case or big letters 3. Phonetic analysis also called phonics - is the study of sound- symbol or phoneme- grapheme relationships as they apply to the teaching of reading, usually used in beginning reading. a. Phonetic prin- ciples that govern articulation of consonants in English EXAMPLE: Some consonant have more that one variety of sound: c - (hard c, heard as /k/ ) - (soft c, heard as /s/ ) b. Phonetic prin- ciples that govern articulation of vowel sounds EXAMPLE: Every vowel has a long and short sound a - able (long), apple (short) e - evil (long), elephant (short) c. Syllable generations EXAMPLE: When two consonants exist between two vowels, a division takes place between consonants. spartan spar-tan letter let-ter d. Stress Rules EXAMPLE: If a root has two syllables , the first is usually stressed mother MOTH er summer SUM mer e. Other principles that govern the articulation of consonant clusters; blends or diagraphs and vowel diagraphs EXAMPLE: 1. When two or more consonants appear in succession in a word, they are referred to as consonant clusters. 2. When the consonant cluster is sounded as one, it is called a consonant diagraph. (think) 4. Structural analysis