Word Recognition

Instructions

ALMIE Y. VILLANUEVA
Reporter
 Word Recognition Instruction

1. Alphabetic Principle

2. Alphabetic Knowledge

3. Phonemic Awareness – letter-sound

relationship
Word Recognition
Word Recognition
Word recognition is the act of
seeing a word and recognizing its
pronunciation immediately and
without any conscious effort.
Alphabetic
Principle
Alphabetic Principle
Alphabetic Principle
Connecting letters with their sounds to
read and write.
Letters in words tell us how to correctly
“sound out”
Taught by isolating letters and sounds.

2 Parts of Alphabetic Principle
1.Alphabetic understanding is knowing that words are
made up of letters that represent the sounds of
speech.
2.Phonological recoding is knowing how to translate
the letters in printed words into the sounds they
make to read and pronounce the words accurately.
To master the alphabetic principle, readers
must have phonological awareness skills and
be able to recognize individual sounds in
spoken words. Learning to read and write
becomes easier when sounds associated with
letters are recognized automatically.
Example of Alphabetic Principle
A child who knows that the written letter “m”
makes the /mmm/ sound is demonstrating
the alphabetic principle.
 1 Challenging part in using Alphabetic
st

Principle
Learning and applying the alphabetic principle takes time and is
difficult for most children. There are many letters to learn the
sounds of, and there are many ways to arrange the letters to
produce the vast number of different words used in print. Also, in
English, the same letter can represent more than one sound,
depending on the word (e.g., the /a/ sounds are different in the
words “mat” and “mate”).
 2 Challenging part in using Alphabetic
nd

Principle
Some words, called irregular words, cannot be read
accurately using the alphabetic principle to “sound them
out” (e.g., the words “said,” “straight,” and “know” are not
accurately pronounced using phonics rules). Irregular
words require a different teaching approach than teaching
how to read words that follow a rule-based, letter-sound
structure.
 2 Challenging part in using Alphabetic
nd

Principle
Some words, called irregular words, cannot be read
accurately using the alphabetic principle to “sound them
out” (e.g., the words “said,” “straight,” and “know” are not
accurately pronounced using phonics rules). Irregular
words require a different teaching approach than teaching
how to read words that follow a rule-based, letter-sound
structure.
Alphabetic
Knowledge
Alphabetic Knowledge
Alphabetic Knowledge

Alphabet knowledge is the ability to recognize

and name uppercase and lowercase letters,
recognize letter symbols in print, and know
that there are sounds associated with each
letter. Alphabet knowledge is a key pre-
literacy skill and lays the groundwork for
future reading success.
Alphabet knowledge consists of knowing:

letter names (26)

letter sounds (44 English phonemes or spoken sounds)
letter writing (52 uppercase and lowercase printed
letters)
usage to apply known letters in reading and writing
words regardless of different fonts (size, design, style
of letters)
Phonemic
Awareness
Phonemic
Awareness
Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic awareness is the ability to
notice, think about, and work with the
individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken
words. This includes blending sounds
into words, segmenting words into
sounds, and deleting and playing with
the sounds in spoken words.
Phonemic Awareness is important because…
It requires readers to notice how letters represent
sounds. It primes readers for print.
It gives readers a way to approach sounding out
and reading new words.
It helps readers understand the alphabetic
principle (that the letters in words are
systematically represented by sounds).