What do you think of this? What do such activities and "cracking the code" contribute to proficient reading? What else might a reader need to become proficient?
After watching this video on helping struggling readers by teaching phonemic awareness, or hearing sounds within words with this cracking the code technique using pseudowords/nonsense words. In the video, they said that the teacher is teaching this technique that experts know works. This technique can be one of the instructional tool to teach struggling readers but it should not be the only way since study has shown it to be helpful. I believe what Dr. Reid Lyon stated in the video are beneficial for struggling readers like teaching in a systematic way with teacher-directed and teacher feedback. With struggling reader, the more one-on-one individual tutoring is helpful for the student.
Proficient reading requires the readers to use many strategies. A proficient reader use schema, syntax, semantic, context, and graphic cues. The students need to create meaning from the words they are learning. I think that using nonsense words will be difficult to teach less proficient reader because they need actual words with pictures (visual cues) to go with those words to help them learn the words. If the teacher teaches with nonsense words then the teacher would not have pictures to go with the word. I personally have never taught phonemic awareness using nonsense words but I would not rule this out since it can an additional instructional tool. Although I feel it is more beneficial to use words that are basic/common every day words and words that the students will come across to create meaning because this is essential to become a proficient reader.
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