The purpose of this paper is to discuss several strategies and techniques to help teach phonics and promote phonemic awareness. The importance of phonics and phonemic awareness in learning to read will be discussed as well as assessments, differentiated instruction, and any assessments. Finally this paper will discuss the actions a teacher could take when a student is not demonstrating progress.…
*The phonological awareness continuum refers to the general advancement of instruction and learning in the sounds of language, moving from alliteration and rhyming through segmenting sentences, syllables, onset and rime.…
Based on what you have read of the assessment data and descriptions, what stage of word identification would you place Justin?…
Taylor, B., Pearson, P., Clark, K., & Walpole, S. (2005). Beating the Odds in Teaching All Children to Read. CIERA Report #2-006. University of Michigan: Ann…
Noting that the role of phonics in reading and writing has become as much a political issue as it has an educational one, this pamphlet offers a position statement regarding the role of phonics in a total reading program. It begins with three assertions regarding phonics and the teaching of reading: (1) the teaching of phonics is an important aspect of beginning reading instruction; (2) classroom teachers in the primary grades do value and do teach phonics as part of their reading programs; and (3) phonics instruction, to be effective in promoting independence in reading, must be embedded in the context of…
In March 2006 the Secretary of State for Education for England, commissioned the Rose Report which recommended that synthetic phonics must be included in the early reading instruction (Styles.M, 2007). The Rose review provided a simple model of reading which basically states that skilled reading requires two processes: the reader recognises and understands the words on the page (word recognition and decoding) and the development of language comprehension ( that is written texts as well as spoken language are understood and interpreted). Both processes are required, but one without the other is not sufficient (Ofsted, Getting them reading early, 2011)…
To start the literacy learner study, the student completed an oral reading fluency assessment. This was completed using DIBELS Next (Dynamic Measurement Group, 2013). This student read 22 words per minute with 73% accuracy. According to the DIBELS report, this student requires intensive instruction and scored in red on the assessment. Because the student scored in red, he had to complete an Informal Phonics Inventory (McKenna & Stahl, 2008, p. 125-131). This assessment’s data reveals the areas of strengths and weaknesses of the student’s phonics skills. Using the results from these assessments helped to determine the literacy learner’s independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels (Morris, 2014a). Knowing and understanding these levels helps to guide instructional design and implementation of effective and appropriate activities.…
Castles, A. & Coltheart, M. (2003). Is there a causal link from phonological awareness to success in learning to read. Journal of Cognition 91 (2004) 77–111…
This activity allows for students, in the future, to be able sound out words that they do not understand. When students understand that words are made up of specific letter sounds, then they will understand that they can sound out those letters and figure out what word they are reading. Other phonemic awareness practices that are utilized in the CRP are phonemic isolation and phonemic substitution. Both of these practices are vital for student accomplishment because, all together, the practices are the gateway for children to be able to succeed in the other essential reading elements. In the text “Literacy for the 21st Century. A Balanced Approach” written by Gail Tompkins, it states that phonemic awareness is crucial to the reading process. When children have a strong phonemic awareness, they are able to understand how to manipulate sounds in spoken words and apply phoneme-grapheme correspondence and phonics rules, as they read (pg. 39). If children do not have a strong phonemic awareness, then they will be presented with a struggle when it comes to reading, fluency, comprehension, and many other elements essential to reading. Page 151 in the text states “children can be explicitly taught to…
According to the literature, the most researchers agreed that phonological awareness (PW) (e.g., 15, 24-28), rapid automatic naming (RAN) (e.g., 29, 30-33), phonological working memory (PWM) (e.g., 24, 34, 35), oral language skills (e.g., 36, 37), visual perception (e.g., 38) and motor skills (e.g., 15, 39), are the strong predictors of reading ability/difficulties. Therefore, these 6 components and their 20 subtests were considered to be…
Based on the results of the current assessments and her actual performance in the classroom I created a lesson plan that focuses on beginning sounds. This lesson is a letter sound activity that allows her the opportunity to have a visual of the word, hear the correct name, repeat the name, produce the beginning sound, and match the…
For many students, phonics instruction begins in Kindergarten. As a child’s cognitive skills enhance in Kindergarten, they begin to develop phonetic skills that they will use in order to begin to read and write. It is highly important that Kindergartners establish a proper foundation in phonics that will help them as their reading and writing skills continue to grow. In addition, as teachers, it is important that we utilize the best teaching strategies in order to help our students comprehend and properly use phonics as they read and write.…
Throughout this essay I will be using relevant research to discuss the changes in the teaching of early reading over the past few years. The new Early Years Foundation Stage framework “should make sure that the best practice for beginner readers provides them with a rich curriculum that fosters all four interdependent strands of language: speaking, listening, reading and writing”. (Rose 2006 p.3) The following literature review will explore how phonics and early reading are currently taught and it will outline the key theories underpinning the Simple View of Reading (SVR), which is currently being promoted in English primary schools since the publication of the Rose Review (2006).…
Phonological awareness is the ability to attend explicitly to the phonological structure of spoken words. Failure to develop an adequate vocabulary, understanding of print concepts, or phonological awareness during the early (preschool) years constitutes some risks for reading difficulties. Phonological awareness skills are believed to be predictive of a child’s ease in learning to read. More than 20 percent of student’s struggle with some aspects phonological awareness, while 8-10 percent exhibit significant delays (Adams et al. 2.). Phonemic awareness is the insight that every spoken word can be conceived as a sequence of phonemes. It is the understanding that spoken language can be analyzed into strings of separate words and that words can be analyzed in sequences of syllables and phonemes within syllables. Young children begin to notice sound similarities in the words they hear. People who can apart words into sounds, recognize their identity, and put…
1-800-ABC-MATH www.kumon.com TABLE OF LEARNING MATERIALS • READING (7A~2A) Word Building Block 7A Highlights SCT Enjoyable “look, listen and repeat” exercises and colorful illustrations help pre-readers develop phonemic awareness of the beginning sounds of words, build a sight word vocabulary, and make the connection between spoken and written language.…