Teaching Word Recognition, Spelling, and Vocabulary: Strategies from the Reading Teacher

Whether your focus is spelling, decoding, or word meaning, word study is a valuable addition to any reading/language arts program. Teaching Word Recognition, Spelling, and Vocabulary will enrich your curriculum with classroom-tested ideas and approaches for helping students learn about words. The 17 articles address such topics as word analogy instruction, decoding, phonemic awareness, read-alouds, flashcards, psycholinguistics, spelling development, vocabulary development, scaffolding, and context use. The book also includes IRA position statements on early literacy instruction. Watch your students reach higher reading levels as they develop a greater knowledge of words and how to apply them in their own speech and writing.