Chapter 5

Developing Competency in Vocabulary and Comprehension Skills

Reading/ Writing

The Teddy Bear Project

http://www.ne.com.au/~mwells/teddybear.htm

There are words that are essential for students to remember as sight words and need to remember to spell.  These words most of these words can not be sounded out nor represents an object and yet they make up 20% of the reading done by children and adults.  They are:

the        of         to        in         that

and        a         is           you     it

What can be done to reinforce these words?

Configuration or framing of letter sound

Elkonin Strategy