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What is phonics?
What is phonics?
Defined: The ability to connect the sounds in each word to printed letters
Defined: The ability to connect the sounds in each word to printed letters
Understanding that letters and combinations of letters represent the sounds of spoken language is called the alphabetic principle.
Understanding the alphabetic principle enables students to read (decode) and write (encode).
What is word study?
What is word study?
Defined: Word study integrates phonics, spelling, and vocabulary instruction to teach word patterns.
Defined: Word study integrates phonics, spelling, and vocabulary instruction to teach word patterns.
What does phonics instruction look like?
What does phonics instruction look like?
Phonics instruction typically involves explicitly teaching students the connection between letters and their corresponding sounds, often starting with basic letter-sound relationships and progressing to more complex patterns, allowing students to "decode" words by blending sounds together, with a focus on activities like phonemic awareness exercises, letter identification, sound isolation, blending sounds to form words, and practicing with decodable text
Activities to do at home to practice phonics (letter/sound correspondence)
Activities to do at home to practice phonics (letter/sound correspondence)
Flashcards:
Flashcards:
Use picture cards or alphabet cards to introduce letter sounds and match them with corresponding pictures.
Sounding out Words:
Sounding out Words:
Say a word slowly, emphasizing each sound, and have your child try to blend the sounds together to read the word.
Word Building:
Word Building:
Provide letter tiles or cut-out letters and have your child build simple words by combining sounds.
Phonics Bingo:
Phonics Bingo:
Create bingo cards with different letter combinations and call out sounds for kids to mark on their cards.
Reading Aloud:
Reading Aloud:
Read books together, pointing out different letter sounds and asking your child to sound out words.
Playdough Activities:
Playdough Activities:
Use playdough to form letters and practice writing letter shapes.
Hopscotch with Words:
Hopscotch with Words:
Create a hopscotch board with words written on each square and have your child hop on the words while sounding them out.
Practice writing letters and words:
Paper copy of Fundations Letter Formation Guide
FUNDATIONS Letter formation(1).pdfFollow this video for the Fundations Letter Formation Guide.
Venn Diagram Name Sort:
Venn Diagram Name Sort:
k1_p010_venn_diagram_letter_name_sort.pdf.crdownload Phoneme (Smallest Unit of Sound) Spin:
Phoneme (Smallest Unit of Sound) Spin:
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