TY - JOUR AU - Haager, Diane AB - /s/ /t/ /a/ /n/ /p/ /i/ tip sit pan Teaching Word Recognition With Blending and Analogizing Two Strategies Are Better Than One Jeanne Wanzek • Diane Haager Mrs. Lopez is an elementary special methods with some success and has cient explanation of why one method is education teacher working with stu- read about both approaches in profes- favored over others. Although many dents with severe reading difficulties. sional journals (see box, “What Does effective special education teachers are She is an experienced, skilled teacher the Literature Say?”). using “balanced” approaches in that with many teaching strategies in her Mrs. Lopez is wondering if they are word-recognition strategies and skills repertoire. Though she was trained to equally effective. Most puzzling is that are taught both in isolation and in the teach reading with a literature-based, available materials and workshops context of reading (Rankin-Erickson & whole language approach, she has always emphasize either letter-sound Pressley, 2000), the specific strategies come to realize that many of her stu- blending or word patterns. Mrs. Lopez employed are often based on philoso- dents need something more to develop wants to use research-based strategies phies in reading rather than proven the foundational skills of reading. TI - Teaching Word Recognition with Blending and Analogizing JF - TEACHING Exceptional Children DO - 10.1177/004005990303600104 DA - 2003-09-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/teaching-word-recognition-with-blending-and-analogizing-zi5HfZRRhH SP - 32 EP - 38 VL - 36 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -