Self Study Guide

Self Study Guide

1. Why do children sometimes guess the word and sometimes ask for help from their teacher?

   • Comprehension comes from moving from guessing to knowing words and how they relate.
   • Automaticity will result from guessing and self correcting until words are known automatically.
   • Inferring words from context
     • Use context clues from within the sentence and story.
   • Children guess when they decode a word that is unknown.

2. When is it appropriate to praise students?

   • Rereading books.
   • Monitoring and self correcting.
   • When you have something specific to praise about.
   • When students decode.

3. How do you correct English language learners that blend phonemes of their native language and of English?

   • Know the difference between base words of both languages.
   • Blending English phonemes to know English words.
   • ESL instruction helps students learn English from the basics to more specifics.
   • Leads to fluency.
   • Knowing phoneme isolation.
   • Phonological awareness.
   • Scaffolding will help students know when they are blending the wrong phonemes.