4. References
• Fitzpatrick, M. (2014). Phonics Reading Strategies. Retrieved
January 26, 2014 from http://www.ehow.com/list_6966055_phonics-reading-strategies.
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National Reading Patterns, (2014). Phonics Instructions.
Retrieved January 26, 2014, from
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/254
Editor's Notes
According to National Reading Panel, (2014), phonics instructions primary focuses on helping the beginner reader understand how letters are linked to sounds (phonemes) that form letter sounds correspondences and spelling patterns. The most effective approach is to help students link an individual letter or combination of letters with it appropriate sound and then blend the sounds to form words.
Analogy phonics - Teaching students unfamiliar words by analogy to known words (e.g., recognizing that the rime segment of an unfamiliar word is identical to that of a familiar word, and then blending the known rime with the new word onset, such as reading brick by recognizing that -ick is contained in the known word kick, or reading stump by analogy to jump) (National Reading Panel, 2014).
Analytic phonics - Teaching students to analyze letter-sound relations in previously learned words to avoid pronouncing sounds in isolation (National Reading Panel, 2014).
Embedded phonics - Teaching students phonics skills by embedding phonics instruction in text reading, a more implicit approach that relies to some extent on incidental learning (National Reading Panel, 2014).
Phonics through spelling - Teaching students to segment words into phonemes and to select letters for those phonemes (i.e., teaching students to spell words phonemically) (National Reading Panel, 2014).
Synthetic phonics - Teaching students explicitly to convert letters into sounds (phonemes) and then blend the sounds to form recognizable words (National Reading Panel, 2014).
Students sometimes become frustrated when they cannot grasp phonics. However, there are different strategies that can be implement to assist these children who have difficulty comprehending phonics and parents can play a vital role in helping a child develop their phonics awareness.
Explicit strategy – means that children comprehend better when the words are explicitly stated and its associated sound.
Decoding strategy – is a process that allows the child to logically connect the relationship between words. Once way to do this is to have the child sound out each letter in a word.
Rhyming strategy – is always a excellent tool because it is fun and it engages the child into participating by completing the sentence with a rhyming word.
Sound strategy - is important for a child to understand how mouths form words and letters. One phonics strategy is to have the child say words in front of a mirror. While looking in the mirror, the child can notice the way the tongue and mouth moves when pronouncing a word (Fitzpatrick,2014).
