Edu 371 Week 1 Fundamental Reading

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Fundamental Reading Ralph Washington EDU 371 Phonics Based Reading & Decoding Jennifer Hanson October 8, 2012 This week’s lesson started with me reviewing some of the sounds from last week. In order to read, we must first know and understand the sounds of the letters. After our review we began with lesson 3 and began to work with our grapheme sounds. These are sounds that are represented by a letter or group of letters that make up one sound such as “ch”, “sh”, and “th”. By using these shortcuts we were able to slide the sounds together to make words and begin our reading process. I had my student to take the shortcut “ch” and “sh” and call out words that have those sounds in them. I was really surprised that she related the sounds to the names of our family members first and then was able to come up with some words from her…show more content…
Of course we started with her name first and found three syllables in “A’Miyah” and then we found two in my name “Eddie”. When we arrived to the sentence portion of the lesson is when I realized just how much she understood. We first read the sentence “Chuck ran to the bus.” She was able to recognize the grapheme and then had a clear understanding when I question her on the meaning of the sentence. Who ran to the bus? Chuck ran to the bus. I then made up another sentence, “Charles shut the door.” She answered Charles when I asked who shut the door. She also answered shut the door when I asked what Charles did. We continued to use different shortcuts to slide the sounds to make words and then made sentences. She was even able to make her own sentences such as “Eddie can sing” and “A’Miyah ran down the hall”. Let me say thanks for the song on the sounds, it has been played over and over in my house every day. I think she knows every word know and it really shows when she is

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