Oxton House Publishers, LLC

Decoding Automaticity Workshop

Made by Serif

Make Decoding Automatic!

A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP

by Phyllis E. Fischer, Ph.D.

I. Introduction

A. What is reading fluency and why is it important?

B. How does decoding automaticity relate to reading fluency?

II. Decoding automaticity and the brain

A. How the brain’s reading processors decode words

B. How the brain recognizes sight words

III. How the Decoding Automaticity package of Concept Phonics™
develops orthographic and phonological automaticity

A. Individual phonemes and graphemes

• Research on teaching multiple sounds for a grapheme simultaneously, rather than successively

• Vowel sounds — the contrast cards

• Consonant sounds — discussion and contrast cards (RAN task)

• Developing orthographic and phonological automaticity on
consonant clusters (digraphs, silent letter clusters, blends)

B. The closed, magic-e, and open syllable structures

• Orthographic automaticity

• Phonological automaticity

C. Whole word automaticity for all syllable structures

D. Spelling pattern fluency

E. The vowel-R and vowel-team clusters & syllables

• Orthographic automaticity

• Phonological automaticity

F. Consonant-l-e words or Suffixes (as time permits)

• Orthographic automaticity

• Phonological automaticity

The materials presented in this workshop are flexible, efficient, research-based supplements to any phonics-based reading program. This makes them particularly useful for RTI and Tiered Instruction. Dr. Fischer’s remarkably effective, timesaving techniques come from more than 35 years or research, teaching, and clinical practice.