Teaching Phonics A Consonant Blend and Digraph

1. Teaching Phonics A Consonant Blend and Digraph Matthew Turnbull and Josh Ward-Jackman

2. What is Phonics • ‘A method of teaching word recognition or decoding that emphasises the sound-symbol (letter) relationship that exists in language’ (Rasinski & Padak, 2008). • Being able to understand the letter-sound relationship.

3. What Will Be Discussed • Various Approaches and Strategies to Teaching phonics to a grade 1 class • How they link to the State and National Curriculum documents • How students can develop their knowledge of sound-letter relationship.

4. Approaches Teaching Phonics –Analogy Approach • Teaching students about word families • helps the students gain an understanding of patterns in words • Helps to practice and apply what they have learnt in different contexts. (Fellowes & Oakley, 2010)

5. Analytical Approach • Helps Develop an understanding by analysing a word • Often occurs in the contexts or reading books and shared reading (Fellowes & Oakley, 2010)

6. Embedded Phonics Approach • This approach focus on the teaching of phonics and is taught within the context of reading (Fellowes & Oakley, 2010) • In this approach children are taught to use context cues such as semantic and syntactic cues to understand and identify words

7. Teaching Phonics Through Spelling • Allows the students to practice thinking about the sequence of sounds in words and how they might be represented • Involves invented spelling, where children spell the word phonetically, that means they represent the sounds they hear and spell the word accordingly. • Eg. Monster (Monstr) and Dog (Dg)

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9. Consonants Blends • Are the names given to two or three consonants that appear together in a word. • Each consonant retains its sound when blended. • Consonant blends only contain vowels and can help students develop an understanding of how 2 or more consonants can sound when blended.

10. Consonants Blends • Words that contain R, I and S blends are ideal to start teaching to students of grade 1 class. • Words Such as : Clap, Drum, Flat, Skid, Sled, Plan, Swat and trip – All words that are part of the National Curriculum strategy for year 1. • Can be quite challenging to teach year 1’s as they must have and idea of single sound spelling of words.

11. Consonants Blends • Many Creative Ways to Teach Consonant Blends. • Games such as Phonics Bingo and Word Spinners Word Family Posters

12. Consonant Digraph • Made up from two consonants which join together to produce a single sound • The most common consonant digraphs are ch-, sh-, th-, ph- and wh and are all useful to start words • helps the students develop and understanding about dual letter sounds.

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14. Principles of Phonics Teaching • Phonics should be taught discretely as a major approach to teaching early reading. • The Rose Report (2006) explains that high quality phonic work is most effective when it is part of a broad curriculum. • Works best when employs a range of multi-sensory activities to develop children’s oral language and phonics skills.

15. Principles of Phonics Teaching • In Early years of schooling (grade 1) phonics should be taught everyday and reinforced across curriculum. • Careful assessment is vital to ensure no student falls behind

16. State and National Curriculum - English/Literacy • The Australian English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of Language, Literature and Literacy • Literature • Literacy • Language

17. State and National Curriculum - English/Literacy • By the end of Year 1 students should be able to listen to, read and view a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, recognising the different purposes of these texts.

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