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Ehri, Linnea C. – Reading Teacher, 2022
A hallmark of skilled reading is recognizing written words automatically from memory by sight. How beginning readers attain this skill is explained. They must acquire foundational knowledge, including phonemic segmentation, grapheme-phoneme knowledge, decoding, and spelling skills. When these skills are applied, spellings of words become bonded to…
Descriptors: Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, Spelling, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Seymour, Dorothy Z. – Reading Teacher, 1973
Discusses the use of syllabication in teaching decoding to beginning readers. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Phonemes, Primary Education
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Murray, Bruce A.; Lesniak, Theresa – Reading Teacher, 1999
Describes letterbox lessons in which children learn the alphabetic code, spelling words by placing letters in boxes that show the number of phonemes in words, and later reading what they have spelled. Discusses materials, how to teach a letterbox lesson, and effectiveness of these lessons. (SR)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Decoding (Reading), Emergent Literacy
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Cunningham, Patricia M.; Cunningham, James W. – Reading Teacher, 1992
Presents a group-guided invented-spelling instructional strategy called "Making Words" which teachers can use with beginning readers to develop their ability to spell words and to apply this knowledge when decoding during reading. Discusses how to plan and teach the strategy. Describes two sample lessons, and explores why the strategy works. (PRA)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Invented Spelling, Learning Processes