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The Key to Teaching Phonics to Kids
Phonics is how
most children learn to read. Children are taught the various sounds that are
made by the vowels, consonants, and combinations of letters. Once these sounds
are mastered children can begin to sound out words to understand their meaning.
Children learning phonics will need to become familiar with a variety of rules
that they can apply when they are sounding out words. Usually children are
given the rule and then given the opportunity to practice several words that
conform to the rule. With practice in phonics children will begin to
automatically say the correct sound when they see a letter or combination of
letters.
Many of the beginning phonics for children readers are not very
exciting for more advanced readers. The point is that they give beginning
readers an opportunity to practice new skills and gain confidence as a reader.
The more practice a young reader has with applying phonics rules the better
they will become at reading.
Some children struggle with learning all the various phonics rules.
This is further complicated by the fact that there are exceptions to just about
every rule out there. The key is to begin phonics for children by teaching only
the most basic rules, such as short vowel sounds. As the child progresses and
begins to encounter long vowel sounds they can then be taught about long
vowels.
Phonics for children should teach a rule of phonics and then give them
a chance to practice it in a real life reading situation. Each type a new
phonics rule is introduced to a child they should be given a short section of
reading that allows them to practice using that rule. While working with
worksheets can be very helpful nothing is quite as effective as reading a
sentence or story in print. Phonics for children is the basic foundation for a
child's success in reading. Children with a good grasp of phonics will usually
become strong readers.
Phonics: Synthetic Vs Analytic
There has recently been a great deal
of focus around phonics within the media, most of the controversy lies around
which method of teaching phonics is the best and most successful. Most schools
will already use at least one process within their classrooms. In the days
before phonics, children were probably taught to read and write using the whole
word process. This method would have relied on children just remembering whole
words. Phonics concentrates on breaking down words and analyzing sounds rather
than just remembering words. This method is far better and much more reliable
and learners and actually using a process to technically break down complicated
words. There are two main process of teaching phonics with the United Kingdom;
these are Synthetic phonics and Analytic phonics.
Synthetic phonics
The word 'synthetic' comes from the
word 'synthesise' this means to put together or to build up. This is applied in
synthetic phonics when children learning to read and write put together or
build up the pronunciation of words that they are not familiar with. This is
done by translating letters into sounds and merging them together to
successfully make a word. Synthetic phonics is particularly useful at the very
beginning of a child's education when almost all written words are unfamiliar.
This process teaches the child in stages to phonetically sound out and write
words and is renowned for being extremely successful.
Analytic Phonics
The process of analytic phonics
allows children that are learning to read and write by focusing on the
beginning and the ending of words. By allowing then to concentrate on a whole
word level (relating whole to part) children will become successful readers. In
other words children understand how to break down words rather than building
them up. Irregular words are introduced at an early stage.
Which is the best?
Both methods have been proven to be
victorious in regards to the teaching of reading but the process of synthetic
phonics is the one that is most commonly accepted and the most popular. It
allows children to decode words to build up letter sounds and boosts children's
reading, spelling and phonemic awareness from being taught six letters a day.
There has been a large focus on the greater use of synthetic phonics recently
within the media; the government are calling for this process to be used in all
primary schools as it has established to be the most successful......... As demonstrated HERE
Phonics - How to Teach the Phonics Alphabet
When phonics becomes automatic fluent reading takes
place and comprehension naturally follows. Only one component of reading,
phonemic awareness or the ability to hear different sounds in words, is more
important than phonics in teaching reading to students. Knowing how to teach
the phonics alphabet forms a bridge that connects oral language to written
language.
Someone who has no training may feel inadequate in
how to teach the phonics alphabet to their child(ren) but it is not as
difficult as you might think. Even if you have been taught to read by sight,
there are many programs available with audiotapes demonstrating the sounds of
letters, consonant blends, consonant diagraphs and vowel diphthongs. Listening
to the tapes repeatedly ingrains the sounds into your head and assists you in
teaching them to your child(ren). The tapes along with flashcards of the
letters that make up particular sounds or phonemes is really all you need to
teach your child the foundation of all reading, phonics which is really associating
the auditory sound with the visual forms of a letter or group of letters.
There is a definite order of progression in how to
teach the phonics alphabet. First teach the individual sounds of the letters
then have students blend the sounds together into short words. Next teach long
vowel sounds in vowel diagraphs such as /ee/, /ai/, /oa/. Afterward teach the
long vowel rule where the vowels are separated by a consonant or group of
consonants like in the words bake, fine, stone and tune. With this foundation
your child will be reading many words and be able to spell them too. More
advanced phonics consists of consonant blends (ex. tr, pl, nd, ck and st),
diagraphs (ex. ch, th, ph and sh) and vowel diphthongs (ex. oi, oy, ow, ou,
ough and igh).
Learning how to teach the phonics alphabet can be
fun for you and for your child. All children love to sing and songs are on fun
way to teach the phonics alphabet. Playing
language games such as rhyming, sound substitution and sound deletion with your
child also makes learning phonics fun and can be done in small increments while
traveling to appointments, waiting in line and getting ready for nap or
bedtime............ It is very effective in teaching children and adults in general as seen in this video.............HERE
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