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This page focuses on Phonics Instruction which is part of the science of reading. It provides you with the background knowledge necessary to teach phonics to young children. Effective instructional and assessment techniques are described.
When watching the instructional videos, it is best that you find a quiet place to watch them. Take notes while watching the videos by pausing the clip to jot down your notes. At any point in time, if you do not understand or missed something, you can rewind or re-watch the video.
References
References
Gunning, T. G. (2010). Creating literacy instruction for all students (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Fox, B. J. (2014). Phonics and word study for the teacher of reading: Programmed for self-instruction (11th ed). Boston, MA: Pearson.
Tompkins, G. E. (2010). Literacy for the 21st century: A balanced approach (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
Tompkins, G. E., Rodgers, E. & Rodgers, A. (2022) Literacy for the 21st century: A balanced approach (6th ed.).
Phonics Instruction Unit
Work through each video lesson and assessment module and then complete the comprehensive assessment.
Lesson 0: Pretest (completed in class)
Lesson 1: Overview and General Knowledge and Concepts
Lesson 2: Single Letter Consonants
Lesson 3: Consonant Digraphs and Blends
Lesson 4: Phoneme Review and Onset and Rime
Lesson 5: Vowels
Lesson 6: Syllables and Accent Patterns
Lesson 7: Morphemes, Affixes, Contractions, and Compound Words
This Phonics Instruction Unit is self paced instructional unit. If this unit is for a grade, the calendar provided by your instructor will give due dates for the unit assessments (quizzes) to help you stay on track. It is wise for you to follow these quiz due dates and not overwhelm yourself attempting to finish items. To access the lessons below, click on either the picture or the name of the lesson.
You will have five (5) attempts at the quizzes. The quizzes pull from a question pool, so do not expect to see the same questions each time. There is a 30 minute wait time between quiz attempts for you to use to go back and re-watch the video lesson or the practice materials before retaking the quiz. I will not allow additional attempts due to technology issues. You will have only 5 attempts to earn an 80% (minimum) or higher to meet expectations.
Submit your completed paperwork to Canvas as you go. I will not grade the Should do or Aspire to do items until after you have earned an 80% or higher on your phonics quiz.
For a certificate of particiaption, you will need to earn an 80% averaged across the entire Phonics Unit.
Lesson 0: Pre-test
Must Do:
Take the pre-test. This will only be available in class and will be taken paper and pencil.
Should Do:
Read the standards for teacher educators: Elementary Education Generalist, Pedagogy, and Reading.
Aspire to Do:
Watch the TED Talk "A Bike Map for Educators".
Lesson 1: Overview and General Knowledge and Concepts
What kind of background do you have in phonics and word analysis? Written English is based on the alphabetic principle - the use of letters to represent sounds. Phonics is the relationship among the letters of the alphabet and the sounds in spoken words, as well as an approach for teaching these relationships.
Lesson 2: Single Consonant Letters
The 26 letters of the English alphabet can be divided into two major categories: vowels and consonants. There are (for our purposes in the teaching of reading) 44 phonemes, 25 of these being consonant phonemes. This lesson will focus on the single letter consonant phonemes.
Lesson 3: Consonant Digraphs and Blends
We have related consonant phonemes to its reprehensive letter. There are 25 consonant phonemes, 18 symbolized by single-letter consonant graphemes. Eighteen symbols, but 25 consonant sounds! Where do we find the seven remaining symbols? The consonant digraph stands for the seven phonemes not represented by single-letter graphemes.
Lesson 4: Phoneme Review and Onset and Rime
The American-English language is not based on pictorial representations or objects or ideas. It is a phonetic language in that there is a relationship between the letters of the alphabet and the phonemes of the spoken language. In this lesson, we will turn our attention to the consonant(s) at the beginning of a syllable and the vowel and consonant(s) that follow it at the end of the syllable.
Lesson 5: Vowels
Although there are many variations due to dialect, individual speech patterns, and so forth, for all practical purposes in the task of teaching reading, we can consider the American-English language to contain 44 separate and distinctive phonemes. We have already learned that 25 of these are consonant phonemes. Therefore there are 19 vowel phonemes. The letters a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y are classified as vowels.
Lesson 6: Syllables and Accent Patterns
The syllable is a unit of pronunciation. It is convenient to use one-syllable words to illustrate that vowel and consonant phonemes because a one-syllable word is, in itself, one unit of pronunciation. The generalization that apply to one-syllable words may apply to each syllable in a multisyllabic word and generally apply to the accented syllable of a word. There is one vowel phoneme in each unit of pronunciation.
Lesson 7: Morphemes, Affixes, Contractions, and Compound Words
The graphemes we have studied thus far represent phonemes. Now we will turn our attention to groups of graphemes that represent sound and meaning. Many words in the English language consist of more than one unit of meaning. The reader uses structural analysis to discover the meaning of these words.
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