What is Guided Reading?
“During word work, explicit instruction on the patterns of English spelling is provided. Students are taught how to use letter patterns to decode and spell new words when they are reading and writing. Word work at a conventional level would include making words, word sorts and transfer, word wall activities and keyword decoding”
Literacy Instruction for Students with Significant Disabilities
“Students who read only by sight or the recognition of sight words are not likely to read text with comprehension above very beginning levels. To achieve successful reading with comprehension, students must have the ability to decode unfamiliar words.
Making Words for Students with Complex Instructional Needs, Karen Erickson
Working with Words resources
Working with Words, Comprehensive Literacy for ALL
Word Identification & Decoding, Literacy Instruction for Students with Significant Disabilities
ELI: Alphabetic & Phonological Awareness