Phonics

Phonemic awareness and phonics are two components of a balanced literacy program in K – 3 classrooms. Phonemic awareness is the understanding that words are made of sounds. Phonics builds on this awareness by teaching the relationships between sounds and letter-symbols. Research supports direct instruction of these components as a precursor to reading success. Commercially-published programs and books, software and apps, and numerous Internet sources can provide teachers with materials needed…

Two examples of other informal reading assessments are the Phonics Mastery Survey and Phonemic Awareness Assessments. The Phonics Mastery Survey is an informal tool for assessing various phonics elements. This assessment measures a student’s ability to recognize consonant sounds, rhyming words, consonant digraphs, long vowel sounds, words with CVC patterns, consonant blends, variant vowel sounds, and syllables in words (DeVries 2011 p.112). A student’s ability to use knowledge of sound/letter…

Case Study 1 If I had a student who was struggling in class with my phonics approach, and needed a different approach, I would try several different strategies that we learned about in Chapter 7 of our textbook this week. The first strategy that I would employ would be “Letter Actions a consonant based strategy” (Vacca, et al., 2015, p. 191,192). This strategy is great for those learning how to read, but having difficulty with the words. In this strategy the sounds of the consonants are…

the benefits of Visual Phonics. Studies have indicated that Visual Phonics is a favorable educational tool to teach phonemic awareness, letter-sound relationship, and speech production (Beal-Alvarez et al., 2011; Guardino, Syverud, Joyner, Nicols, & King, 2011; Narr, 2008; Syverud et al., 2009; Trezek et al., 2007). The focal point of studies on Visual Phonics is younger students such as preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders, and it has stated that Visual Phonics is most appropriate…

Hill describes development of phonics in writing in different phases. It starts with pre-phonic spelling through the use of letters, numbers and other symbols to express in written language. This phase is followed by semi-phonic spelling where the children begin to understand the relationship between symbols and sounds. They gain confidence as a crawling baby trying to stand up at this stage. Then, like a baby taking steps forward, they use phonetic spelling in which they start writing with a…

Another component of analyzing invented spelling is breaking down phonics in each word. To analyze break this words down we look at the word phonemic elements. Cole did a fantastic job using these elements in his writing. The first word I looked at was “rokitchip”. This is how Cole phonemically spelled out rocket ship. The phonemic element he used in this word is consonant blends with the letters ch. Consonant blends are mixing two consonants together to make a new sound that combines their…

lacked the foundational skills to be successful in the subject areas of Reading and Mathematics. Some of the common areas of weakness in reading that my students have demonstrated were in areas of phonics, phonemic awareness, comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. I noticed that phonemic awareness and phonics weaknesses frequently occurred in my first and second grade students. Those students had difficulty matching sounds and letters, which can affect their reading and spelling. They guessed…

Phonics strategies Phonics is the method of teaching a person to read by putting sounds with letters or a group of sounds from the alphabet together. Phonics has many strategies to help students with literacy in the classroom. The following three phonics strategies will form the foundation that students need to read and communicate properly. Those strategies are letter blending, word sort, and alphabet matching. Letter Blending Letter blending is the skill combining sounds together…

wrote about a couple of methods to learn English words, such as phonics and whole language. Phonics is one of the oldest ways in teaching someone new words, and was first introduced into the school system in the early nineteen hundreds. Phonics is where one uses sound and symbol relationships to figure out the word parts, and then puts them together to form words. One then repeats this process over and over till the word is memorized. Phonics is still very popular and used all around the United…

1. Whole language This short story is beneficial in addressing whole language. Reyhner, Jon. "Dr. Jon Reyhner." Reading Wars: Phonics vs. Whole Language. Jon Reyhner, Northern Arizona University, 13 Dec. 2008. Web. 22 Sept. 2016. Whole language asks for rigorous literacy in which speaking, listening, reading, and writing are all included into instruction. Students will benefit from collaborative discussions, reading and analyzing theme and dialogue, and writing through graphic organizers. The…