Beck and Beck Chap 7-8

Question 1

What is Word Building

Answer 1

Activity that supports decoding and word recognition by giving students opportunities to consistently experience and discriminate effects of changing letters in words

Question 2

Empirical results from Word Building

Answer 2

Students who had inadequate reading skills after 1-3 years of schooling engaged in Word Building for 20 sessions made significantly greater progress on standardized tests of decoding, comprehension and phonological awareness

Question 3

Benefits to Word Building

Answer 3

Full decoding - discrimination from other vowels (new from learned phonic element)

Attention to all letters in word

More attention to vowels (solidifies letter-sound correspondences)

Can fill in for missing phonics

Question 4

How to connect word building to text?

Answer 4

Decodable text

Question 5

Variations to Word Building

Answer 5

Have a student volunteer read words
Subgroups read word together

Question 6

Advantages to whole class word building

Answer 6

Entire lesson completed at one time

Question 7

Disadvantages to whole word building

Answer 7

Planning, organization and work

Question 8

Small group word building advanatges

Answer 8

Less work, less organizing, help individual students