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The Importance of Word Building Strategies

Word building strategies are incredibly beneficial to your child. These vocabulary expansion tasks can also help you grow closer to your children as you design a plan to educate them together. By Sherri Turnquist

Laura Lurns Last updated · 1 min read
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Building a solid foundation in reading and writing is every parent’s number one concern. Using this program, students build their knowledge through auditory, visual and kinesthetic cues to enable them to become thinkers rather than just recycling memorized materials. The Word Awareness through Word Building program helps to create a solid foundation through explicit teaching.
The word building program includes many indoor and outdoor activities to stimulate children in different environments. This helps create learning pathways in their brains and helps them to become lifelong thinkers. Each of the activities are customized and build on one another so they can be used for differing skill levels in the same age group of children for fast and proven results.

Key takeaways

  1. There are 6 progressive levels of development toward building phonological awareness in students.
  2. It’s important for students to master each of the 6 progressive levels so that they do not have weaknesses.
  3. Included is an activity to help your student develop Word Awareness.
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