Students need different ways to decode a word, not just the prompt to "sound it out". Many words can not be correctly decoded using grapho-phonic clues (i.e.--psychology). The following is a more complete set of skills to help students decode words that are in their oral vocabulary load. Note: The "Say Blank" strategy will not work with words that are not in the students' oral vocabulary load-meaning words.
WORD IDENTIFICATION STRATEGIES: decode and define words
1. grapho-phonic cues
letter sounds
letter chunks (blends, ect.)
patterns (begins with a vowel ends with a consonant)
2. Structural Cues
incredible "cred" is the root it means trust this helps students know words like incredulous
roots
pre fix
suffix
base words
3. Context Cues
Say "blank", or "hmm" in the place of a word you don't know
Think about what makes sense
Look for common patterns/chunks
Blend together and reread to make sure it makes sense
After a very bad day, there was a lot of tension on Mom's face.
"There were some context clues in this sentence that could help you, what do you think those would be?"
"Do you know the root word of tension?
"When do you feel tension?"
Another Example:
"We need to know look at some vocabulary you may encounter in the story"
"Who would like to read this sentence?"
"What kind word is Granddad? "compound word." "Highlight the two parts of the word."
"Now use your pencil to circle two letter patterns in the word" "'and' and 'ad'" "if you know that word then you would know how to read 'sand', 'band'; sad, fad (use in a sentence), lad (which is another word for?"
"Can you give me a synonym, and antonym?"
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