Why Phonemic Proficiency is Necessary for ALL Readers - AKA How Students Learn and Remember Words

Goal

Know

The ability to store words in long term memory so that they can be read “as if by sight” is essential to becoming a confident and capable reader

Understand

The process by which a new word is stored in long term memory and becomes a sight word

The role of phonological awareness in word reading and word learning

Do

Apply understandings of orthographic mapping to plan for instruction

Content

In reflecting on Scarborough’s Reading Rope, we recognize how phonemic awareness and sight words are critical strands in the development of confident and capable readers.

David Kilpatrick, the author of Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Disabilities and Equipped for Reading Success, is a school psychologist and college professor by trade who has been on a mission to make the reading research accessible and actionable for classroom teachers. In this one hour webinar, Kilpatrick explains how students learn to read new words, and even more importantly, remember those words so that they can read “as if by sight.”

Prior to watching, reflect on the statements in this Anticipation/Reaction Guide. (Please go to File > Make a Copy to create your own copy of this document. Please do not request edit access. ) Indicate in the middle column whether you think each statement is true or false.

As you watch, complete the final column.


Also as you watch, define each of these terms and draw a quick visual next to your definition to support meaning making:

Sight word

Orthographic lexicon

Phonemic proficiency


Evidence

Complete a 3 - 2- 1 Summarizer on your Individual Professional Learning Plan...

3 - New things I learned

2 - New instructional activities I will use with students to support orthographic mapping (see Equipped for Reading Success Appendix D for a list of ideas)

1 - Question/wondering I have


Special thanks to Michelle Trostle and Linda Baughman for creating this module.