The Gudschinsky lesson

A typical lesson in the Gudschinsky instructional program teaches independence, comprehension and fluency through listening to a story, introducing new letters from a keyword, drilling the new letter in syllables, building new words using the new and previously known syllable combinations, reading a story, writing the new letter and words and creative writing.

Here are the parts of a typical Gudschinsky lesson :

• Story read to the learners
• Language experience activity on theme of primer lesson (optional)
• Introduction of key picture and key word

• New letter drills (analysis, synthesis, identification, contrast, word building)

  See:	Literacy primers: The Gudschinsky primer, Chapter 7 Letter drills

• Functor drills as needed

  See:	Literacy primers: The Gudschinsky primer, Chapter 8 Functors drills

• Story read silently by learner, then out loud by teacher, then out loud by learners in unison

  See:	Literacy primers: The Gudschinsky primer, Chapter 9 Story

• Reading and writing activities as needed.

• New letters, syllables and words written to reinforce reading , letter formation, spelling, and creative writing

  See:	Literacy primers: The Gudschinsky primer, Chapter 10 Writing

Here are some sample primer pages from the Gudschinsky reading program:

• Gudschinsky primer page sample

• The Gudschinsky instructional program

See the following online book for more information:

• A manual of literacy for preliterate peoples, The teaching of reading

• Structure module: Gudschinsky lesson, by Leah B. Walter
• In overview module: Current instructional programs, by Leah B. Walter, Glenys Waters, and Trudy K. Stewart (editor)
• In overview module: Instructional programs, by Kenneth A. Boothe (contributor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), and Glenys Waters (contributor)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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