The Phonics Methods of Teaching Language

1. The phonics method of teaching a language ~LalitKishore

2. Phonics Method: What In initial stage, language learning needs to be based on the following three skills • Listening • Speaking • Recognition • Reading Therefore, instead of the names of letters of alphabet (graphemes), letter sounds (phonemes) should be emphasized

3. PHONICS-FIRST METHOD

4. A definition • The phonic method of instruction is language instruction that is based on letter sound and letter name relationship leading to proficient reading with correct and clear articulation

5. Objectives

6. Phonically Sound Reading • It is defined as • decoding of graphemes or written symbols of letters • into • phonemes or standard sounds • with • understanding of the rules governing decoding with speech clarity.

7. Specific situational uses: Analytic and Synthetic Phonics • For children with learning difficulties or speech defects and those learning a new language, the analytic or inductive phonics method is used which involves phonic spelling of words with rules and their practice through similar or rhyming words. • For children already good in spoken language or auditory discrimination, the synthesis or deductive phonics method is used that involves reasoning from the rule to specific application.

8. Instructional material development and use Steps for children with difficulties of learning English as a new language • Create a few short poems of four to six lines • Alliteration poems • Close sound discrimination poems • Blending sounds poem • Teaching letters (graphemes) with standard sounds or phoneme-grapheme correspondence • Teaching sounds (phonemes) and their symbols • Teaching letter-sound of complete alphabet (grapheme-phoneme) and sound- letter

9. Blending and segmenting activities for kids • TWO ACTIVITIES • blending component sounds all through a word • segmenting words into their component sounds • EXAMPLES • Wood as W-oo-d and vice versa • Sit as S-i-t • Sheet as Sh-ee-t • Cheese as Ch-ee-z

10. Transition to reading passages • Once mastery over vowel and consonant sounds has been achieved, slect a few short paragraphs (4X4to 6X6) for ... • modelled reading, • echo-reading, and • loud reading ... ...practice for speech clarity and correct pronunciation

11. Professional vocabulary of a language teacher using phonic method - I • Here is the glossary of phonics method of language teacher in inclusive school • Alliteration – It is the language art with repetition of the first letter sound in a phrase or line • Blending – It is the process of merging sounds together to pronounce a word, e.g., letter sounds b-a-t ‘ are blended to read the word ‘bat’ • Consonant -The letters of the alphabet other than the vowels . • Digraphs – It is the code consisting of a pair of letters representing a single speech sound, e.g., ph, ch, th • Diphthongs – It is the vowel sounds category that consists two adjacent vowel sounds occurring within the same syllable, e.g., au, ou, oa, oi, ea • Grapheme – It is a letter or group of letters representing one sound, e.g., b, s, p, n, sh, ch, th, ng

12. Professional vocabulary of a language teacher using phonic method - II 7. Phoneme – It is the basic sound unit of speech corresponding to a written code of letters singularly or grouped .to be sounded together 8. Phonetics – It is the classification of speech sound, especially with regard to the physical aspects of speech organs facilitating their productions 9. Phonics – It is the process of correlating letter sounds and letter names 10. Segmenting – It the process of splitting up a word in its individual phonemes in order to spell it. 11. Trigraph - A grapheme made up of three letters that makes one sound (igh in high). 12. Vowel- It Independent sound of letters a, e, i, o and u in English