In this video, Sam Modest discusses the process he and his co-teacher, Erin Metcalf, are going through to refine structured word inquiry practice in their Grade 2 class at the Nueva School.
Sounds and Symbols focuses on how children learn the relationship between sounds, letters, and words as an initial step before being able to decode the printed word.
Reading expert Linda Farrell works with Calista, an early stage reader, on short vowel sounds, blending and manipulating sounds, reading whole words, and fluency.
