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Integrating Phonics Activities into Your EFL Classroom

Integrating Phonics Activities into Your EFL Classroom. Welcome - Chào mừng bạn. For Better English Education. Welcome. Find out about the person next to you. Ask: Name Something interesting Hardest class? How did you deal with it? Something else (your choice).

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Integrating Phonics Activities into Your EFL Classroom

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  1. Integrating Phonics Activities into Your EFL Classroom Welcome - Chàomừngbạn For Better English Education

  2. Welcome • Find out about the person next to you. Ask: • Name • Something interesting • Hardest class? How did you deal with it? • Something else (your choice) For Better English Education

  3. Welcome Name: Ian Fact: I’ve been on the news. Hardest class taught: Teaching middle school students Any Questions? For Better English Education

  4. Program • Approaches to reading instruction • Phonics: what and why? • Incorporating phonics into the classroom For Better English Education

  5. Approaches to Reading How do we teach reading in foundation courses? • What is the whole-language approach? • What is the phonics approach? • Can they exist together? For Better English Education

  6. Approaches to Reading The Whole-language Approach • Words learned as complete words • Reading with little analysis • Read aloud / lots of exposure to words For Better English Education

  7. Approaches to Reading Problems with the Whole-language Approach • Rote memorization • Large oral vocabulary needed • Negative affect when meeting unknown words For Better English Education

  8. Approaches to Reading The Phonics Approach • Focus on sounds and patterns in pronunciation • Read by breaking words up For Better English Education

  9. Approaches to Reading Problems with the Phonics Approach • Can be mechanical • Less focus on meaning • Requires expensive materials For Better English Education

  10. Phonics Why Phonics? • Phonics provides students with essential skills • Can incorporate both approaches to • Learn through play For Better English Education

  11. Incorporating Phonics How do I incorporate phonics into my classroom? • Activities • Games • Stories For Better English Education

  12. Incorporating Phonics How do I align activities with my lessons? • Consider the stakeholders • Consider your aims (reading / speaking issue) • Consider what your are teaching and how your phonics activity will compliment it For Better English Education

  13. Incorporating Phonics Features of good phonics activities • Fun, active and exciting • Level appropriate and memorable • Provide opportunity for production For Better English Education

  14. Phonics Activities Flashcards • Easy and fun to make • Can be used in meaning-focused activities • Students can take them home • How many activities can you think of? For Better English Education

  15. Phonics Activities Flashcards - Demonstration • Can I have two volunteers? • How can you adapt this activity for stronger or weaker students? For Better English Education

  16. Phonics Activities Dictations • Easy and fun to do • Can be used in meaning-focused activities • Active and burns energy • How many types can you think of? For Better English Education

  17. Phonics Activities Dictations - Demonstration • Can I have two volunteers? • How can you adapt this activity for stronger or weaker students? For Better English Education

  18. Phonics Activities Stories, Chants and Songs • Requires some preparation • Entertaining and memorable • Incorporate 4-skills / art • How many types can you think of? For Better English Education

  19. Phonics Activities Stories, Songs and Chants - Demonstration • How can you adapt this activity for stronger or weaker students? For Better English Education

  20. Wrap-up • Approaches to reading • Phonics – What and why? • Incorporating phonics into the classroom - Flashcards - Dictations - Stories, songs and chants For Better English Education

  21. Further Reading • Baumann et al. (1998). Where are teachers’ voices…” The Reading Teacher. 15(8). • Bear & Templeton. (1998). “Explorations in developmental spelling.” The Reading Teacher. 52(8). • Cunningham & Cunningham. (2002). In Farstrub & Samuels (eds.) What research has to say about reading instruction (3rd Ed.). • Paul, D. (2003) Teaching English to Children in Asia. Pearson Longman. • Stahl, S. (1992). “Saying the P word” The Reading Teacher. 45(8). • Stahl, et al. (1998). “Everything you want to know about phonics.” Reading Research Quarterly. 33(3). For Better English Education

  22. We Do Phonics Check out www.eltkorea.com for our comprehensive offerings of phonics titles, teacher resources and other ELT products. For Better English Education

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