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Teaching Vocabulary (Eight Methods of Instruction) and Teaching Letter Names and Sounds

Teaching Vocabulary and Teaching Letter Names and Sounds

Choosing among eight different methods to introduce vocabulary allows teachers to develop students’ excellent visual and auditory discrimination, their ability to detect word parts, and identify syllables.

Teaching Manuscript and Cursive Penmanship Skills

As pupils learn to spell, write legibly and rapidly what they read, and proof their work, their reading levels increase and they use their ability to express themselves in writing more frequently.

Teaching Comprehension (Literal, Interpretative, Critical, and Creative)

Unless students understand the words they read, they lose interest in reading. Comprehension is critical for persons to become lifetime readers.

Teaching Critical Thinking and Specialized Study Skills

Critical thinking and specialized study skills assist a reader to obtain information more readily and to transfer the information so it makes sense and is used to serve meaningful purposes identified by the learner.

Teaching Writing (Creative and Expository) Skills, Book 1

Teaching Writing, Book 1, includes 36 sets of directives to teach at least 120 lessons. The teacher will be able to teach many writing skills with the use of this text.

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Teaching Vocabulary (Eight Methods of Instruction) and Teaching Letter Names and Sounds

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Teachers learn, with the assistance of this text, which words to teach through phonics, by sight or context, or through five different word structure methods. They also learn when they should use each method. Students learn to generalize from each method of instruction and are able on their own, then, to pronounce new words. Retention soars.

During instruction, students learn the meaning of their new words. They read the words in sentences and use them in sentences. Later, they are able to use the words in their conversations and in their writing.

Teaching letter names and sounds is invaluable for teachers who teach pupils at an initial level of reading. A variety of exercises provides multiple practices as pupils learn to name letters and attach sounds to symbols. Phonemic awareness develops as students recognize and participate in the various activities provided in this text.

Visual discrimination of letters is essential if pupils are to learn to read. Students must recognize and remember differences in letters, and a knowledge of letter names is needed if pupils are to spell words.

Hearing differences and likenesses in sounds (auditory discrimination) and recognizing letters that represent sounds assist pupils as they learn to read. Once letters are named, pupils are taught the sounds that a letter or combination of letters represent.