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Fuller Approach in Teaching Reading

The document describes the Fuller Approach for teaching reading, which combines alphabet, phonics, and whole word methods. It involves first teaching letter names and shapes, building vocabulary, and starting with single consonant words. It then lists 10 reading strategies for teachers to use, such as projecting words to build automaticity, allowing think time for student responses, sorting words by part of speech, teaching phonics even for subject area words, using nonsense words to assess phonics skills, and doing inference activities to relate clues in text to conclusions about characters.

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Fuller Approach in Teaching Reading

The document describes the Fuller Approach for teaching reading, which combines alphabet, phonics, and whole word methods. It involves first teaching letter names and shapes, building vocabulary, and starting with single consonant words. It then lists 10 reading strategies for teachers to use, such as projecting words to build automaticity, allowing think time for student responses, sorting words by part of speech, teaching phonics even for subject area words, using nonsense words to assess phonics skills, and doing inference activities to relate clues in text to conclusions about characters.

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Fuller Approach in Teaching Reading

Learn how to read using the FULLER APPROACH. 

The fuller is a combination of the alphabet, phonics and whole methods of teaching word recognition.
The technique requires that the beginning reader should have first the ff: Mastery of the names and shapes
of the letters of the alphabet. Adequate vocabulary so that the words used in the Fuller lessons will have
meaning for the reader. The examples given should start with a single consonant.
List of Reading Strategies
Add some variety to reading instruction and maximize its effectiveness by making use of
this list of reading strategies. Each strategy is easy to implement and helps keep
students actively engaged in the process of learning to read.
To learn more about decoding, teaching, and what reading strategies are, visit the
Reading Horizons Reading Strategies Homepage.
1. Project Words
To help students develop automaticity with word recognition, flash one word at a time on
the board or wall by quickly turning a projector on and off. Have students orally read
each word as it comes up.
2. Repeat and Speak
When asking students to write letters, words, or sentences, use the following process to
engage multiple language skills at the same time: Say the letter, word, or sentence twice.
Have students repeat it back twice. Have them write it once. Finally, have them read it
aloud once.
3. Allow Think Time
When asking a question, allow enough “think time” for students to generate an answer.
4. Sort Words
Have students sort words from a story into parts of speech.
5. Follow Along
When students are “following along” as you read out loud, randomly stop in different
places and ask the students to chorally complete each sentence.
6. Teach Phonics
When teaching subject area words, don’t neglect phonics. For example, when
introducing the word “atmosphere,” don’t begin by writing the word. Instead, pronounce
the word, break it into spoken syllables, and then write it one syllable at a time. Finally,
discuss the meanings of parts of the word (i.e., “atmos” is Greek for “vapor, steam,” and
“sphere” is Greek for “globe, ball”).
7. Cue the "ABCs"
Have students use each letter of the alphabet to begin a word that relates to a specific
topic. For example, if the topic is weather, students may choose the word “arid” for the
letter A, the word “barometer” for letter B, and so forth.
8. Use Nonsense Words
Use nonsense words to assess students' knowledge of the alphabetic principle.
9. Employ the 3-2-1 Strategy
Use the 3-2-1 strategy to measure student engagement. After students read a passage,
have them write 3 things they learned, 2 things that are interesting, and 1 question they
may have about what they read.
10. Inference
To teach inference, gather a suitcase full of objects, and have students describe what the
owner of the suitcase must be like based on inferences made from the items in the
suitcase. Relate the activity to clues that the author gives in a story or passage from
which students can draw inferences.

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