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Study Guide: Daddy, Where Did the Words Go?  (Flanigan, 2005)

Please think about the answers to the following questions BEFORE you read the article.

1. Is it a good idea to have young, beginning readers use their fingers to point to words as they read (finger-point reading)? Why or why not.

2. Do most kindergarten students know what a word is (have a “concept of word”)?

3. Do most kindergarten students know what a phoneme is (an individual sound unit, often represented by a letter in writing)?

4. How do children become aware of words and phonemes?

Answer the following questions AS you read the article.

5. What happened with Jack’s finger pointing?

6. What differences are there between speaking and reading?

7. What is phoneme awareness (phonological awareness)?
   

8. Describe the 4-stage model of early literacy.

9. Describe what this means: “It is not in the telling, but it is in the very act of reading that Jack will actually learn how to read.” p. 43

10. What instruction helps develop beginning readers’ awareness of words and phonemes?

11. What questions do you have from the article? List them here.

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