Reading Programs: Word Families Are An Important Part Of How To Teach Reading

What makes a advantage reader?

How do you teach reading?

What ability and strategies are important to aid linguistic process fluency?

These questions have haunted the parents of young juvenile for decades but while learning to read is a long, complex process there are galore easy and fun techniques parents can use to activity their juvenile learn to read. One of these important strategies is language unit families.

Research shows that strong readers are able to decode new words by comparing them to known words rather than by sounding them out letter by letter. The best way to separate between advantage and poor readers is erennial found to be their knowledge of spelling patterns and their proficiency with spelling-sound translations. That is why linguistic process teaching that include phonograms, also called language unit families and chunks, are a highly effective way to activity young juvenile acquire and implement these kinds of linguistic process ability and strategies.

Phonograms are recognizable chunks of letters that appear with regularity in words. For example, frog, dog, and log all share the phonogram -og. When juvenile learn the sound property and spelling of chunks such as -og they can decode by comparison–that is they can apply what they know to new words they encounter. This means that rather than struggle to decode the language unit “beep” one letter at a time, and then combination to come up with a recognizable word, a juvenile can more quickly and efficiently decode the language unit by putting two familiar sounds together–the sound property for b and the sound property for -eep. Once the scholar begins to learn other phonograms then you can multiple this success galore times over and the result is a more efficient and happy reader.

One easy strategy for introducing language unit families is to have your juvenile color a representation related to one of the words in that language unit family and then, either in the white space surrounding the representation or on an attached piece of paper, write down words that you brainstorm together that also belong in the family. Continue to build more homemade language unit family charts until you have a book of language unit families your juvenile can refer to regularly.

Word families are an important part of how to teach linguistic process because learning language unit families, or language unit chunks, can activity juvenile decode new words by comparing them to known words. Knowledge of spelling patterns and spelling-sound translation are among the key ability of advantage readers and language unit families are an important part of education those skills.

Deanna Mascle shares more information about Language unit Families and other linguistic process lesson plans and resources at

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