5 Areas of Reading

1. Summarizing
2. Inferencing
3. Sequencing

   Annotations:

   • Click the link below to watch a VIDEO of students demonstrating Sequencing. https://youtu.be/ZEWitdYB6_Y
4. Comparing and Contrasting
5. Drawing conclusions

1. Connection between sounds and letter symbols.
   1. Synthetic Phonics
   2. Analytic Phonics
   3. Phonics Through Spelling

Annotations:

• Click the link below to watch a VIDEO explaining the importance of reading fluency. https://youtu.be/ogi7ANK49wk

1. Ability to read with speed, accuracy and expression
   1. Directly tied to comprehension

Annotations:

• Click the link below to watch a VIDEO on the Alphabetic Principle http://www.readingrockets.org/reading-topics/phonics-and-decoding

1. Understanding that words are created from phonemes
   1. Comes before phonics instruction

Annotations:

• Graphic Organizer for vocabulary exercises http://freeology.com/wp-content/files/vocabularycluster.pdf

1. Explicit instruction
2. Context Clues