THE PHONIC METHODOLOGY

Pamela S. Caday

M Ed Filipino

June 8, 2013

- breaking words into smaller components and basic sounds

- is a method of teaching that emphasize letter-sound relationships.

Example:

TWO IMPORTANT THINGS ABOUT PHONICS

An instructional strategy – a method of teaching children to read

Teaching the relationships between the sounds in speech and the letters of the alphabet

GOAL OF PHONICS FOR BEGINNING READER:

to understand how letters are linked to sounds to form letter-sound correspondences and spelling patterns and,

to help them learn how to apply this knowledge in their reading.

PHONIC METHODOLOGY

Defines reading as the decoding of graphemes or letters into phonemes or sounds and the understanding of the rules governing decoding.

Stressed letter sounds rather than letter names (Moe and Johnson, 1980)

TWO BASIC STRATEGY Analysis/Inductive (Pabuod) – involves

from particular words to the rules or conclusions about them

Example:

Synthesis/Deductive – involves reasoning from the rule to specific applications

Example:

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ANALYTIC PHONICS AND SYNTHETIC PHONICS

ANALYTIC PHONICS

Children analyze letter sounds after the word has been identified

Consonant blends (e.g. bl, gr, st, shr) are taught as units in analytic phonics

The child taught by analytic phonics determines the sound for 'oy' by referring to a known word, e.g. 'boy'.

Sounding and blending is introduced later.

SYNTHETIC PHONICS

The pronunciation of the word is discovered through sounding and blending.

The child blends these letters together to determine the sound.

Children taught by synthetic phonics process directly from print to sound. So if they see the word 'ploy', for example, they know that 'oy' makes the sound /oy/ and so can read the word.

Synthetic phonics teaches children to sound and blend after only a few letter sounds have been taught.

CHILDREN PREREQUISITE

1. Good auditory discrimination2. Good visual discrimination3. Analytic abilities4. Synthetic abilities5. High learning rate and a good

memory

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