The Letterbox Lesson: A Hands-on Approach for Teaching Decoding

Describes letterbox lessons in which children learn the alphabetic code, spelling words by placing letters in boxes that show the number of phonemes in words, and later reading what they have spelled. Discusses materials, how to teach a letterbox lesson, and effectiveness of these lessons. (SR)

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Published in:The Reading teacher 1999-03, Vol.52 (6), p.644-650
Main Authors: Murray, Bruce A., Lesniak, Theresa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Beginning Reading
Children
Children & youth
Class Activities
Consonants
Decoding (Reading)
Direct Instruction
Emergent Literacy
Experiential learning
Grade 1
Instructional Effectiveness
Learning
Learning Readiness
Literacy
Methods
Oral Reading
Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Phonemes
Phonemics
Preservice Teachers
Primary Education
Pronunciation
Reading
Reading Failure
Reading Instruction
Reading teachers
Sight Vocabulary
Spelling
Spelling ability
Student Needs
Study and teaching
Teaching
Teaching methods
Teaching Reading
Tutoring
Vowels
Writing instruction
Written correspondence
Written Language
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Summary:Describes letterbox lessons in which children learn the alphabetic code, spelling words by placing letters in boxes that show the number of phonemes in words, and later reading what they have spelled. Discusses materials, how to teach a letterbox lesson, and effectiveness of these lessons. (SR)
ISSN:0034-0561
1936-2714