WORD ATTACK & PROBLEM SOLVING
People who use word attack and problem solving skills when reading or writing understand that there are some common rules or patterns that help us predict how to read, write or say a word.
People use different strategies for different reasons.
- Sound Strategies are useful for decoding or learning how to spell
- Visual Strategies are useful for identifying patterns and important word features that aid both decoding and comprehending.
- Connecting Strategies are useful for drawing on prior knowledge to explore new ideas.
- Meaning Strategies are useful for understanding what you reading as well as how to spell words that don’t follow phonetic rules.
- Checking Strategies are useful editing and revising works and reading tasks.
This resource helps your child(ren) develop an understanding of the connection between reading and writing and the importance of this connection.
WORD ATTACK INQUIRY TASKS
Here are some of the choices we can make as readers and writers.
Sound Strategies
Visual Strategies
Connecting Strategies
Meaning Strategies
Checking Strategies
Understanding the strategies
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