Learn the following word solving strategies:

• What is a word? bolsters early-emergent readers' understanding of print
• Get my mouth ready focuses emergent-level readers on beginning sounds
• When students learn to look across the word, they learn to pay attention to more than initial letters
• Asking "What do I know?" helps students look for parts of words they recognize
• Teaching young readers to chunk the word results in word solving by analogy
• Developing-level readers can look into the word when faced with multisyllabic words
• "What other sound can I try?" acknowledges the complexity of the English language and alerts near-fluent readers to the need for flexibility as they read.

Viewers learn how to:

• help students internalize key word solving strategies
• base classroom word work instruction on a well researched word learning continuum
• match word work lessons to students' literacy needs, from the emergent to the near-fluent level
• use word sorts to enhance students' thinking about word elements
• establish a core of sight words to boost students' reading fluency and comprehension
• coach young readers in ways that encourage and extend their ability to self-monitor and self-correct
• engage students in active word learning through small group, whole class and individual literacy activities
• strengthen students' reading independence