This weeks, Chapter 5 was about discussing the different tactics that we as future educators, can use to help our students with achieving word recognition. Chapter 5’s main focus was strictly based on word recognition and phonics. The book lists different strategies for word recognition. These include: To develop a store of words that may be recognizable that is immediately on sight, by making the use of context clues that is surrounded, by a word, able to decode a word strictly, through phonics or sound-symbol associations, using structural analysis or even uses the part of the word to provide clues for recognition, and lastly, using a dictionary to look up words. Being able to use both semantic and syntactic clues can be very helpful. When