CHAPTER 6: PHONICS
Objectives
As a result of reading and studying this chapter students will be able to:
- Describe components of effective phonics instruction
- Define and describe systematic and explicit phonics instruction
- Identify examples of synthetic-explicit, analogy, analytic, and embedded phonics instruction
- Recognize important considerations for the sequence of phonics instruction
- Identify the difference between regular and irregular words
- Identify four blending techniques for teaching decoding
- Describe and explain the benefit of decodable text in early reading instruction
- Describe and explain the benefit of phonogram instruction in phonics instruction
- Explain the importance of word work and give examples of word work activities
Key Terms
- Systematic phonics
- Explicit phonics
- Synthetic phonics
- Analogy phonics
- Embedded phonics
- Corrective feedback
- Monitoring
- Pacing
- Signaling
- Regular words
- Irregular words
- Sound by sound
- Continuous blending
- Whole word blending
- Spelling focused blending
- Automatic word recognition
- Decodable text
- Phonograms
- Word sorting
- Word building
- Elkonin boxes with letters
- Dictation
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