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The first alternative I would use to help the student would be spelling based strategies. The strategy helps students identify words and is designed to engage the learner in word study though the use of word walls, word banks and word sorting strategies (Vacca et al., 2015). In word banks, the learner reads a text and selects words that they do not understand or recognize and transfer them to cards. Word walls help the student to recognized words that rhyme but have different letter patterns. Word sorting is an activity where the student looks for words that a similar. Students work together whereby one identifies words that are similar while the other student explains why he chose those words. This is classified as open word sort. Closed word sort a teacher gives the student the criteria to use to group words.

The second alternative to help the student learn phonics is analogic based strategies. The strategy is based on the perception that words with similar onset and rhyme patterns also have same pronunciations. The student explores the onset and rime patterns of a single and multiple syllable words and also uses nursery rhymes to identify both onsets and rimes (Vacca et al., 2015). In addition, the student can use consonant-based strategies, which covers most of the letters in the alphabet. Kinesthetic students benefit from letter actions where by a letter is printed on the side of a card and an action that corresponds with the letter is printed on the opposite side. The student is asked to perform actions after the cards have been mixed up.

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Vacca, J. A., Vacca, R. T., Gove, M. K., Burkey, L. C., Lenhart, L. A., & McKeon, C. A. (2015). Reading and Learning to Read (9th ed.,). United States: Pearson Education, Inc