Strategies for Word Identification: Phonics from a New Perspective - Softcover

A fresh, new look at code-breaking in the learning to read process! This ground-breaking text is a practical, comprehensive examination of the strategies readers use to identify and learn words. It explains the spoken and written language base for word identification strategies, how strategies emerge, and how readers progress to the use of advanced, streamlined strategies. It explores the contribution of phonological awareness to strategic word identification, and describes teaching techniques that foster such awareness. By shifting attention away from isolated letter-sound learning and towards reasoned, planned, transferrable strategies, the text helps reshape the way future teachers integrate word identification strategies into classroom activities.