Week# 7/Assignment # 3: Questions


1.      Explain the three levels of words and how you can use word levels to decide which words to teach.
Unicameral legislatures and words from chemistry, and biology.
2.      How do you teach your students to "chunk" words as a strategy for decoding unfamiliar words? When do you provide this instruction?
By chunking, ask students to tear off the middle, end, or half of the word to decode/pronounce the middle of the word and then after a couple of days of tearing apart words and putting chunks together gradually students will start to decode

3. Based on Professor Allington's comments and the classroom examples, what are some ways you might foster word study in your classroom?
Some ways to foster word study in my classroom include putting up a word wall and allowing students to put up words voluntarily on the word wall that they don’t know or looks interesting and want to learn more about and allowing the instructor to introduce a word to the class every day or couple days while explaining the definition of the word, using it in a sentence, and pronouncing the word so that students can gain another exposure to a word they can comprehend and read fluently if they come across it in a text or orally. In addition, I would organize separate small groups where each center had a different activity related to word study. For instance, Group #1 would receive teacher directed word study lesson, group #2 would engage in literacy activities , and group #3 would read a short text and do interactive writing. Each group would rotate after 10-15 minutes.


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