Essay On Phonemic Awareness And Phonics

Teachers Knowledge and Perceptions of Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Instruction A well-known body of research concluded that the systematic and explicit phonics and phonemic awareness instructions improve early reading and spelling skills and prevent reading difficulties (NRP, 2000; Snow et al., 1998). Therefore, teachers’ knowledge and perceptions of these instructions affect the effectiveness of reading instructions. According to Mather, Bos, and Babur (2001), teachers were not knowledgeable enough about the concepts of English language structure (phonics terminology), even though the teachers had positive perceptions about explicit phonics instructions. For example, only 2% of pre-service and 19% of in-service teachers (293 pre-service and 131 in-service teachers) knew that box has four speech sounds. Another study aimed to investigate 722 kindergarten through third-grade teachers’ actual and perceived knowledge about early literacy domains (children …show more content…
The study took place in the tri-states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. 17 teachers and 24 d/Dhh students who were in grades one through four participated in different educational settings (general education only (n = 5), general education/resource room (n = 6), and self-contained classroom (n = …show more content…
It has been used over 30 years to teach d/Dhh students. Based on the research findings, it can be easily concluded that Visual Phonics is an effective tool, regardless of the students’ degree of hearing loss, communication method, level of education, and spoken language abilities (Beal-Alvarez, Lederberg, & Easterbrooks, 2011, Smith & Wang, 2010, Trezek & Wang, 2006). Additionally, three studies concluded that Visual Phonics was an effective intervention strategy for hearing kindergarteners who were at risk of reading