Library Media Specialist's Word Wall and Beyond: Integrating the Five Components of Reading Instruction
School Library Monthly › Vol. 23 Nbr. 1, September 2006
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Phonemic awareness is not phonics. The simplest explanation is that phonics is to the printed word what phonemic awareness is to the sounds of the parts of spoken words. Phonemic awareness is an essential precursor to reading. Trinkle discusses the five components of reading instruction as integrated by the library media specialist.
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Library Media Specialist's Word Wall and Beyond: Integrating the Five Components of Reading Instruction
When my principal referred to the five components of reading instruction with the staff, I worried that I was out of the loop. I did not even know what phonemic awareness, one of the components, was and had no clue how I, as a library media specialist, could help teach phonics, another component. I thought I must be way behind the other members of the teaching staff, "everybody else is doing it," and every teacher understands these terms except me. Not true! Though each of the five components advocated by the National Reading Panel as part of a comprehensive, strategic reading program is not new, teaching them systematical...
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