Learning Our Phonics
PHONICS AND DECODING 1
LEARNING OUR PHONICS
Keith D. James
EDU371: Phonics Based Reading & Decoding
INSTRUCTOR: KARI PETERSON
June 18, 2012
PHONICS AND DECODING 2
LEARNING OUR PHONICS
There are many different ways and styles that can be used to ensure success in the classroom. Every teacher will deliver lessons and assignments differently which does not always mean that your way is wrong, we all must remember the ultimate goal of our profession is the same, the success of our student in learning to pronounce and sound letters and words with proficiency. Sometimes as teachers we may think that because a student didn’t do so well on a particular lesson today that we did not succeed today. The art of teaching a student to read is not something that happens in a day, it is a process and during the five weeks of this class I learned many different techniques/steps in accomplishing this goal.
I first listened to our video instructor as she discussed the history of our language and how it was developed from simple drawings on the wall to our current alpha beta or alphabet that we currently use and understand. The video instructor talked about understanding the sounds that each letter makes. Understanding the sounds and being able to use the phonetic sounds of the letters. We have to assure our students that the ultimate goals of the lessons are to improve their reading and writing ability. In order to do this we have to begin at the beginning. You cannot teach a student to write a word or even read a word if they do not first know how to say the word. So in my classroom with my daughter we started at the very beginning with how to pronounce the letters. Using the aah-buh-cuh’s of learning she felt kind of weird as she called it because she felt like she was in first grade again.
PHONICS AND DECODING 3
LEARNING OUR
LEARNING OUR PHONICS
Keith D. James
EDU371: Phonics Based Reading & Decoding
INSTRUCTOR: KARI PETERSON
June 18, 2012
PHONICS AND DECODING 2
LEARNING OUR PHONICS
There are many different ways and styles that can be used to ensure success in the classroom. Every teacher will deliver lessons and assignments differently which does not always mean that your way is wrong, we all must remember the ultimate goal of our profession is the same, the success of our student in learning to pronounce and sound letters and words with proficiency. Sometimes as teachers we may think that because a student didn’t do so well on a particular lesson today that we did not succeed today. The art of teaching a student to read is not something that happens in a day, it is a process and during the five weeks of this class I learned many different techniques/steps in accomplishing this goal.
I first listened to our video instructor as she discussed the history of our language and how it was developed from simple drawings on the wall to our current alpha beta or alphabet that we currently use and understand. The video instructor talked about understanding the sounds that each letter makes. Understanding the sounds and being able to use the phonetic sounds of the letters. We have to assure our students that the ultimate goals of the lessons are to improve their reading and writing ability. In order to do this we have to begin at the beginning. You cannot teach a student to write a word or even read a word if they do not first know how to say the word. So in my classroom with my daughter we started at the very beginning with how to pronounce the letters. Using the aah-buh-cuh’s of learning she felt kind of weird as she called it because she felt like she was in first grade again.
PHONICS AND DECODING 3
LEARNING OUR