EDCI 3136 Chapter : Four Cueing Systems
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Problem is: there are 26 letters and 43/44 sounds as some letters have 2 or more sounds. Think how to express a phoneme in writing: semantic serves the student from grade three and beyond. The cueing system involves using context clues to determine word meaning. Example: r-u-n i provide the sounds for you. You listen to the sounds and correctly tell me the word is run. You can generate over 10 examples of meaning. If the word would have been in context, you would have known the meaning. This demonstration shows you that phonics only takes a student so far. Students need more: syntactic involves word order, prefixes, suffixes, and root words. Also see the sentences below where the only difference is the placement of the word only. The various placements change the meaning of each sentence. You can also look at long words and remove the prefixes and suffixes to get to the root word.
