Science of Reading Lesson: Orthographic Mapping

This Science of Reading Lesson video will explain how to implement the teaching of phoneme/grapheme mapping in your classroom. The Science of Reading is a very robust topic to learn about and implement in a classroom, but this video will break down the steps to one aspect of the Science of Reading. I will teach you step by step on how to implement the practice of phoneme/grapheme mapping that aligns with the Science of Reading. I will also discuss my beliefs on the Science of Reading and Guided Reading using my 23 years of classroom experience.

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[yvettetaulton]

Mrs. Digilio, I have followed your teachings for years. As an Interventionist and as a classroom teacher. You have helped me to help MANY of my struggling readers to make major progress and some have become successful readers. You have been the best thing that has happen to me when it comes to teaching reading in my classroom. You are the greatest and as long as I see success with my students, I will continue to follow you all of the way! Keep doing what you are doing, and thank you for helping me to help my babies! :)

[Maskedreaderrrrrrr]

Someone finally said it! We don't teach children to "guess" the words, we ask them what strategy they can use to figure out or decode the word and if they are unsure, it may be time to teach a NEW strategy. That is a teachable moment! We are starting SoR this year so thank you for giving me some things to think on before diving into the training.

[elizabetheisnitz]

Agree with you I’ve taught guided reading for 27 years, Reading Recovery, and have been trained in Wilson and Fundations. Balance is the key!!!!

[stephanieslmiller]

From my understanding of the science of reading, it says that leveled books are bad if used solely as a way to teach children how to read. That decodable books must be one of the strategies used to teach a children. So in the beginning use decodable books and as they gain skills in word attack gradually shift towards leveled books. Why? Because decodable books can be a bit dry and because there aren’t many irregular words in decodable books and students need to be exposed to IR words. This is my take on what I have researched about SOR.

[karenmings]

Thank you! I’m a reading interventionist struggling with the current over-focus on phonics. You are saying what I believe as well. ❤

[angelabailey]

Thank you for this! I have 4 dyslexic students this year with one on kindergarten level. I really think this strategy would work to make words “stick” with them.

[christieazer]

As a homeschooling parent, this was incredibly helpful in understanding orthographic mapping. Thank you.

[loriswenson]

Hallelujah!! I have been using leveled books for years but did not know about SOR until recently. As I have learned more, I too did not want to get rid of using good literature. Readers do not just read decodable text. There needs to be room for both. I am now analyzing our guided reading books more to see opportunities to review phonics practices we have learned. I plan to expand this as I go and try to learn even more over the summer.

[northshorelight]

I just started following you. I no longer teach but it turns out that I was already using some of your strategies because I found these methods were the most effective. Btw, I was a foreign language teacher who taught a tonal language. These strategies definitely are the most effective!

[maryadeleallison]

I completely agree with your description of Balanced Literacy! A true Balanced literacy classroom will always teach differentiated, explicit phonics/phonemic awareness/word study instruction. I also know that some children do not learn how to read through breaking words into the individual phonemes. Some children learn how to read using phonics patterns or chunks. Other children need to have the phonemes taught explicitly. I also completely agree that the overall goal of reading instruction is to teach them how to be lifelong readers --- to love reading!!!

[janemarshall]

Love your channel because you are fabulous! I am a science of reading teacher in Australia and I can tell you that decodable texts are only for students who are still learning the basic code and use rich texts for story structure, vocabulary, and reading comprehension for all students. So science of reading is all about the 5 components - not just phonics. . See the Reading League for great ideas! Thanks for your great enthusiasm!

[pinarose]

Absolutely agree with meeting students where they're at and teaching reading with balance! Thank you for your amazing work!

[donellebrown]

Anna, You are one of a couple of teachers that I have found that believe learning phonological and phonemic awareness are necessary for children to be able to read. You hit the nail on the head with what you said in your "soapbox". I am going to be trying to use your program in my classroom this coming year. I am looking forward to the Literacy with E.A.S.E program to start up.

[militaina]

I entered the literacy world in 1999 and became a specialist out of a need to be able to help my students. I am i total agreement with you.

[AmandaGraySteinacher]

Truly, a mix of Science of Reading and Guided Reading is the best strategy! Love this video!

[cynthiap.]

I agree with you, thank you for this informative video. I am just entering the teacher life & the school I am in is a whole language school this school believes in 15 minutes of phonics. However I remember I was provided a literacy coach because during my guided reading I was explaining how to decode a word the student got stuck on. The coach told me the best way is for them to look at the first letter of the word and guess it by looking at the pictures. I am a person who stands on my believes and on what I think is best for my students. As I continue doing what I thought was best for my students, I saw improvement in their reading without them relying on the pictures, especially for my ELL students. Although, I do still teach them reading strategy. So when they are reading independently they first decode and when they are stuck they use context.

[debsbenjamin]

Thank you for this wonderful video. You makes everything so clear. Great video

[GeeMocktan]

Mrs. Digilio, what amazing way of sharing your knowledge and experience!!!

[mlaine]

Very helpful! Thank you. I am practicing words with my 5 year old. This seems to make a lot of sense to me. Since I learned English as a teenager this is all new to me.

[dorettaellis]

Thank you soooo much for your guidance. You're just what I needed and at the right time.