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Teaching Phonics

This document provides guidance on teaching phonics to children. It recommends starting by evaluating what letters children know, teaching letter sounds, and using games to demonstrate blending letters to form words. Harder concepts like digraphs and chunks should be taught visually by showing the letters and the sound they make together. The goal is to help children understand the relationship between letters and sounds to begin decoding words.

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Teaching Phonics

This document provides guidance on teaching phonics to children. It recommends starting by evaluating what letters children know, teaching letter sounds, and using games to demonstrate blending letters to form words. Harder concepts like digraphs and chunks should be taught visually by showing the letters and the sound they make together. The goal is to help children understand the relationship between letters and sounds to begin decoding words.

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• Phonics instruction is frequently the first step in

teaching a child to learn how to read.

• Best described as the relationship between letters,


blends, digraphs, chunks and their spelling.

• Phonics helps children learn to read because


recognizing those letter-sound connections is the first
step in decoding, or sounding out, words.
• Evaluate what children already know.
• Using alphabet flashcards, ask children to identify
each letter by its name.
• Very young children may not be able to recognize the
letters and only know the alphabet in context of the
A-B-C song.
• In this case, the first step is to teach young children
to recognize the letters as they are singing them.
• Make sure to sing the song slowly so they can hear
each letter as a distinct entity.
• Start connecting sounds to the
letters that make them.

• Eg: when you are cleaning up the


alphabet puzzle, ask children to
find the letter that says "sss" and
put it away first.
• Increase the instruction by asking children to tell you
the sound a given letter makes.

• Some of the sounds may be harder for them to


produce just from a developmental standpoint, but if
they can make an approximation of the correct
sound, accept that sound.

• The hardest letters for children to learn are vowels,


letters that have two sounds (C, G) and letters that
don't sound like their names (Y, W, X).
• Play word games with magnetic letters and cookie sheets.
• Try, if possible, to make all the vowels one color to make
them clearly identifiable.
• Begin by creating a simple word like "cat."
• Ask children how they can make the word "cat" into the
word "hat."
• Continue this process with word families until children
ready to move on to more complicated sound like
changing "cat" into "cap."
• Explain to children that the English language
isn't always predictable and that sometimes a
couple of letters together make one sound.

• Blends (for example, "br" or "sp") are more


easily deciphered because they often sound
like the two letters put together.
• Digraphs and chunks, however, ("sh" "ch" or
"th" for example) are a little more
complicated.

• These will have to be taught visually--show


them to your child and demonstrate the
sound these letters make together.

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