Analyzing A Running Record Question

Using your knowledge of word identification strategies; 1. use of phonics 2. analysis of word structure 3. use of context 4. identification of sight words Identify one strength and one weakness in word identification strategies; cite specific evidence from the running record results to support your answer.

Phonics Strategies: Using knowledge of the relationships between letters and groups of letters to identify words

Phonics/Spelling Generalizations Question #24, Objective 0003 Correct response, A A teacher can most effectively support first graders’ rapid automatic word recognition by first teaching students how to apply consistent phonics generalizations in common words. Literacy How, Inc. 2011

Structural Analysis Strategies: Using knowledge of meaningful units of language and how those units are combined to identify words Prefixes: letters added to the beginning of words that change its meaning (un-happy) Suffixes: letters that are added to the end of words that change its meaning and/or the way they are used in sentences (plant-ed; help-ful) Roots: What is left of a word after its prefix and/or suffixes are removed (im port ed) Compound Words: Two root words combined (outside, football) Contractions: A shortened form of a word or group of words, with the missing letters usually marked by an apostrophe (he’d, wasn’t, here’s)

Rob likes to swim in the lake. Context Clues Strategies: Using knowledge of semantic clues (i.e. the meaning of the text up to that point) and syntactic clues( implicit knowledge of word order (grammar) to identify words). Evidenced as a strength when reader self corrects an error that did not make sense. lak © Rob likes to swim in the lake. Evidenced as a weakness when student substitutes a word that does not make sense but does not self correct. bakpake 2. Emily threw her backpack…. On the bed.

Irregular high frequency Sight Word Strategy: The ability to identify words by sight because they can not be identified by using phonics alone since some of the letters or of letter combinations do not represent the expected sound; the, was, of, are, you have, were