Encoding

Encoding/ Writing

Encoding also known as writing is the final stage of the phonetic process. When students are successfully able to apply their phonetic knowledge of phonics patterns to their writing, we know they have acquired and mastered these phonics skills. We practice mastering our phonetic concepts through dictation of words and sentences on a regular basis to apply their knowledge to their writing.

• Provide your child with opportunities to practice applying their knowledge of the phonetic concepts they are learning through dictation of words and sentences. Generate a list of words and sentences that contain the concepts they have learned so far.

  • For example: if your child is working on blends, give them a word like blush- it can be sounded out using the patterns they have already learned to write the word. During this time we do not want to give them words that contain spelling/phonetic patterns that they have learned yet for example bloom - as they hadn’t learned /oo/ yet. You can refer to your child's Reading Lab Tool folder to see all of the concepts they have been introduced and reviewed in the Reading Lab thus far.

• Encourage your child to use pounding and fingertapping to sound out the words they are writing. They will pound out each syllable (fist on a table) of multisyllabic words and then tap out each sound (with fingers) in the syllable, write it down and move on to the next syllable. Have them stretch the sounds out to hear and record all of them.

• Hold your child accountable to fix and correct spelling errors of phonetic patterns they have learned so far. (Require them to go back and fix their mistakes.)

• Encourage your child to check their writing for CUPS- Capitalization, Understanding, Punctuation and Spelling.