Essay On Phonemic Awareness

In Chapter five, defines phonemic awareness and phonics and how they are important to learning. But then there are certain drawbacks and benefits teaching those areas of reading. Phonics deals with children seeing the phonograms and how it relates to words instead of only the sounds. There are many types of phonics instruction two examples are analytic and synthetic phonics. There are many nationalities that make up the world especially the U.S. which the dominant is English and children who grew up with their own dialects pronounce certain letters or words differently than the Standard English. Next, teachers have so many methods to assess a child’s phonemic awareness and phonics, one example is phoneme isolation. Besides the assessment there …show more content…
As far as remembering about the phonograms that is what I lacked. My teacher only went over the phonograms in one week never using the phonograms to teach how to decode the words. Instead she taught the phonograms using the alphabets from A-Z then she just jumped into the phonics. That is where I struggled learning the phonics because I could not make that connection between the phonograms to a word. Until last year I finally now know the sounds of those phonograms. I believe it is true that knowing the phonograms is essential to reading especially writing because it allows you to know the rules to …show more content…
But then again you might want to walk the student through the method on how it’s done. Next time they may be able to do it on their own so demonstrating the gradual release will definitely show how much the child has learned. I have had that same experience where it was just drilling and worksheets. It would have been great to actually do hands on because I love to learn that way. Maybe then I would have known the phonograms last year and been a lot easier to know the sounds. Also one thing I like about the sorting method is how they mention the pair share and how it not only