What do you think of this? What do such activities and “cracking the code” contribute to proficient reading? What else might a reader need to become proficient?
This video showed just how important the letter-word correspondence is to the student. Students learning how to associate letter sounds to build words is an important part of the initial stages of building a strong reader. The teacher in the video showed just how important understanding the phonics is to building a word. I like that she mentioned it was important for the student to not only hear the sounds from her, but be able to sound it out and blend it together so it makes sense to them, just like she mentioned with the word "sat."
I don't believe students building non-words will help benefit them in reading. I try and have my students focus on reading for meaning and comprehension rather than just reading nonsense. I think building non-words takes away from them developing meaning. When students can build actual words they can begin to make connections to them which will help them become stronger readers.
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