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Phonics workshop 11 May 2019 Kate Allott. Phonics is the ladder the reader climbs, only to kick it away once it has been surmounted….Phonics requires the reader to process every letter. Future development depends on this habitual word-attack strategy.
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Phonics is the ladder the reader climbs, only to kick it away once it has been surmounted….Phonics requires the reader to process every letter. Future development depends on this habitual word-attack strategy. Effective readers process virtually every letter fast and automatically. The habitual use of context clues tends to be a marker of the poor or beginning reader. Better readers read the words. Bielby (1994)
Phonics terminology • Phoneme • Grapheme • Digraph, trigraph • Adjacent consonants • Segment • Sound out • Blend
What is phonics? Phonics involves….. • The skills of • segmentation • and blending • Knowledge of the • alphabetic code
What is the reading challenge of these words? • cry • bridge • brought • tear Key learning for students: Graphemes can represent different phonemes – bead, bread
Key learning for students: • phonemes can be represented in different ways (/j/ in join, lodge, giant) – implications for spelling
lom sib steg famp sharl • grobbit (but not grobit) • woapt / woped (but not wopt) • inc/kayshun / incation (but not inckasion)
Student subject knowledge • The alphabetic system • Associated terminology • How to support children learning phonic skills • Phonic phases, knowledge of a scheme • Structure of the phonics session and appropriate activities