Parent Information

Phonics Workshop

Our Phonics program is based on the Orton Gillingham program and is incorporated throughout our Readers Workshop. Students will be introduced to a new phonics skill each week and will apply all skills throughout the year.

Phonological and Phonemic Awareness:

Phonological awareness is the ability to hear and orally manipulate sounds in spoken language. It includes the recognition of words within sentences, the ability to hear rhyming units within words, the ability to hear syllables within words, and the ability to hear and manipulate phonemes, or individual sounds, within words, which is known as phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the understanding that the sounds of spoken language work together to make words.

Phonics Instruction:

Phonics instruction focuses on teaching students the relationships between sounds of the letters and the written symbols. In phonics instruction, students are taught to use these relationships to read and write words. Phonics instruction assumes that these sound/symbol relationships are systematic and predictable and that knowing these relationships will help students read words that are new to them.