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Chapter 3: Word Recognition
Word Recognition Strategies: Word recognition strategies and skills help a reader recognize written words.
Sight Words: Sight words are words that can be recognized immediately on sight.
Context Clues: The words, phrases, sentences, and illustrations surrounding words to be recognized are context clues.
Phonics: Phonics is the association of speech sounds (phonemes) with printed symbols (graphemes).
Structural Analysis: Structural analysis involves using units larger than single graphemes (such as prefixes and suffixes) to help decode words.
Dictionary Study: Dictionaries can help students determine pronunciations of words. They must be able to use the phonetic respellings and the pronunciation keys in dictionaries.
Word Recognition Procedure: Knowing a specific strategy for decoding unfamiliar words can help students attack these words more effectively.