Word Form Treatment

Question 1

What are aspects of word form? (6)

Answer 1

• Phonemic awareness
• Phonics
• Word recognition
• Fluency
• Spelling
• Word Study

Question 2

How do you treat phonemic awareness?

Answer 2

• Don’t forget the purpose oh phonemic & phonological awareness instruction
• Control difficulty
• Use your knowledge: (what kinds of sounds are easiest/hardest to isolate)
• Use manipulatives
• Combine PA work w/explicit phonics word & print awareness (letters to phonemes)
• Be able to construct PA Tx activities to target a specific skill

Question 3

What are decoding instruction for dyslexia?

Answer 3

-PA-based reading instruction methods include: Orton-Gillingham Approach, LiPs (Lindamood), Earobics, PHAST, analogy-based phonics

Question 4

What is analogy based phonics?

Answer 4

Learning orthographic patterns of high frequency “key” words and applying these to unfamiliar words with the same patterns

Question 5

What does LiPs teach?

Answer 5

• Letter-sound associations through metaphors and articulatory movements
• There is some supportive evidence
• Commercial product - SLPs can be trained in a 3 day workshop

Question 6

Regardless of which program you choose, what 3 things should you do?

Answer 6

• Don’t forget sight words
• Teach strategies
• Work on morphological awareness

Question 7

How do you work on sight words?

Answer 7

• Assure sight recognition of all function words
• Practice problem words until they become sight words
• Explicitly point out common orthographic patterns
• Write & spell words to promote recognition

Question 8

What strategies do you teach for word form?

Answer 8

• Break words into syllables

- Think / reason aloud about word structure

Question 9

Method of repeated readings for reading fluency

Answer 9

-Recommends including narrative text in repeated reading for a more dramatic “author voice”

Question 10

Other variations for reading fluency intervention. (3)

Answer 10

• Choral reading
• Echo reading
• Reading with audiotape

Question 11

How do you work on spelling? (6)

Answer 11

• Choose words carefully
• Distributed practice & pace appropriately
• Use interactive, multi-modality activities that engage problem-solving
• Integrate other word knowledge
• Work on self-monitoring and error correction
• Integrate practice opportunities in real text (not just word lists)

Question 12

Considerations for choosing words carefully (6)

Answer 12

• Developmental sequence
• Don’t work on known words
• Let students self-select some important words
• Choose words according to your assessment (are their difficulties phonological, morphological, or orthographic?)
• High-frequency “sight” words
• Homophones (e.g., their, they’re, there) and other known hard words

Question 13

Recommendations for distributing practice and pace appropriately

Answer 13

• 3-5 new words per day or tx session

- continued distributed practice over time

Question 14

What are some interactive, multi-modality activities that engage problem-solving?

Answer 14

-Word hunts & word sorts to identify orthographic patterns

Question 15

What is Word Study?

Answer 15

Pulling in all sources of information of words - decoding & encoding (reading & spelling) - pulling in meaning as well

Question 16

What is the purpose of Word Study?

Answer 16

Improvements in language at word level going up to discourse level

Question 17

List 3 examples for how you can build morphological awareness?

Answer 17

• Have a root word, recognize all the afferent things you can do with the word
• give a list of words and find / discuss the root of those words
• Given a root word and a meaning of a word, make the word. Ex: “Act” and “turn something off” = deactivate.