Decoding Regular Words
There are two parts to learning to read. One is the visual part. (Learning the letters, learning to read words.) The other is the auditory part. (Hearing the sounds) Phonics is putting these two parts together.
When teaching phonics it is important to:
Further Websites
http://bogglesworldesl.com/phonics.htm - this site provides a list of resources that teachers can use to develop students phonics skills and assist them in decoding regular words.
http://teams.lacoe.edu/reading/assessments/assessments.html - this site provides a variety of assessment techniques specifically for students phonics skills.
http://decodingwithphonics.weebly.com/ - this site provides an overview of decoding regular words using phonics skills and gives practical examples of how this skill can be developed.
In my classroom
In my classroom I will explicitly teach students phonics skills in order to decode regular words through making use of effective phonics programs that address:
When teaching phonics it is important to:
- Teach each skill orally before you teach it with the letters. For example, teach the child to blend sounds together orally by saying the sounds and then put them together into a word. Then teach the same skill with written letters.
- Make sure the steps are very small and doable for the child. If your child really struggles to move to the next step, you can break it down into smaller steps.
- Model and practice.
Further Websites
http://bogglesworldesl.com/phonics.htm - this site provides a list of resources that teachers can use to develop students phonics skills and assist them in decoding regular words.
http://teams.lacoe.edu/reading/assessments/assessments.html - this site provides a variety of assessment techniques specifically for students phonics skills.
http://decodingwithphonics.weebly.com/ - this site provides an overview of decoding regular words using phonics skills and gives practical examples of how this skill can be developed.
In my classroom
In my classroom I will explicitly teach students phonics skills in order to decode regular words through making use of effective phonics programs that address:
- graphophonemic relationships
- letter-sound associations
- letter-sound correspondences
- sound-symbol correspondences
- sound-spellings
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