Reading Concern: Decoding/Word Attack
Possible Interventions:
Word Attack
Strategies
Help students break words into parts—
prefix, base word, suffix—using a hierarchy of strategies
Word parts lesson plans or resources: http://www.vocabulary.com/ and
http://www.resourceroom.net/comprehension/wordparts/
List of most common prefixes: ..\vocabulary strategies\20 Most Frequent Prefixes in School Texts.doc
DISSECT
Sight Word
Instruction
High Frequency
Words
Discover context
Isolate prefix
Separate suffix
Say stem
Examine stem
Check with someone
Try dictionary
1. Student lists of words he/she does not know from a given
reading passage
2. Make flashcards to practice and increase recognition of words
1. Student lists of words he/she does not know from a given
reading passage
2. Make flashcards to practice and increase recognition of words
List of frequent words: www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/frequent.html
Drilling Error Words
Students practice, drill, and receive corrective feedback on words
misread following these steps:
1. Student misreads word, records error word/date in “Error Word
Log”.
2. At end of reading session student writes out all error words onto
index cards.
3. Teacher reviews the words on the cards with the student and if
student reads a word correctly or self-corrects, remove card
4. Practice each word with the student; have student repeat each
word then re-read each word card in deck until mastery.
Latin Roots
NOTE: This site overviews many of these, and other, strategies: http://www.unl.edu/csi/reading.shtml
Data Collection: AIMSweb fluency probes and intervention-based measures