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Teaching Reading in Today's Elementary Schools, Ninth Edition
Betty D. Roe, Tennessee Technological University
Sandra Smith, Tennessee Technological University
Paul C. Burns, Late of University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Chapter Objectives
Chapter 3: Word Recognition

  • Describe some ways to help a child develop a sight vocabulary.
  • Describe some activities for teaching use of context clues.
  • Discuss the role of phonics in the reading program.
  • Define each of the following terms: consonant blend, consonant digraph, vowel digraph, diphthong.
  • Describe how to teach a child to associate a specific sound with a specific letter or group of letters.
  • Discuss ways to teach the various facets of structural analysis.
  • Identify the skills children need in order to use a dictionary as an aid in word recognition.


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