Module Five: Powerpoint Summaries

Powerpoint Summary: “Linking Phonics and Vocabulary Development”

            This Powerpoint discusses how phonics is the ultimate achievement of all students  learning how to read and become fluent readers. One process to achieve phonics is through the practice of decoding. When a student is successfully able to decode words, then the student is more able to understand and read the vocabulary in a text. To achieve this, a teachers instruction must be diligent and informative. When a teacher directly creates instruction to cater towards the students reading needs and text interests. The skills of decoding are very vital in determining a student’s phonics achievement.

Powerpoint Summary: “Vocabulary Development”

            Initially, this presentation provides you with different analysis strategies that are all very helpful in improving students reading abilities. It then went on to discuss the prompts for fostering decoding strategies. I have never thought about the questions that I asked whether they were semantic, syntactic or phonic. But this section gives me great feedback about knowing the types of questions I am asking my students and how they are questioning them and how they are beneficial to their decoding learning.

            It is also important to teach students good skills of correct ways to decode their miscues, and teaching them self-correcting skills. This is why it is so important to give students appropriate texts that are on their level. Through this phonics learning process, automaticity with high frequency words is very important. Some of the different techniques provided are shared reading, singing-high frequency words, experience stories, and predictable books. I have used shared reading in my classrooms before, and I have seen the benefit of this teaching method in learning sight words. I have also used techniques of repeated reading and read alouds, which can also be effective in teaching students their sight words. I agree that word walls can be very effective along with the use of graphic organizers for learning. Lastly, I have never made small books for the students. This would give them a sense of ownership over their work and learning their sight words. This was a very beneficial powerpoint and I am glad I referred back through so many helpful techniques.