Phonics Lecture Notes

Flashcards about phonics based on lecture notes.

What does the word 'phonics' derive from?

The Greek word 'phone' meaning voice or sound.

What does phonics teaching require learners to do?

To know and match sounds with single letters and combinations of letters.

Why is phonics important for beginner readers?

It introduces all twenty-six letters in the alphabet.

What happens when learners know the connection between sounds and letters?

They can sound letters of words and, if they know the meaning, understand the text and be involved in reading activity.

What can learners do as they get to know that they can decode words by sounding letters?

They will begin decoding three-letter words.

What needs to be explicitly taught in phonics?

Letter-sound correspondences.

Where should phonics begin?

In Early Childhood Education (ECE).

What is important for teachers to do concerning phonics teaching?

Teachers must clearly and consistently enunciate the sounds they are teaching.

What do learners need to understand for phonics teaching to make sense?

That a word is made up of a series of discrete sounds.

What level should phonics be taught and practiced?

To a level where decoding becomes habitual and automatic.

What type of activities does good phonics teaching involve?

Auditory, visual, and kinaesthetic activities that acknowledge different learning styles.

What is synthetic phonics?

It uses a part-to-whole approach that teaches learners letter-sound relationships in a clearly defined incremental sequence.

How does Analytic Phonics work?

Starts at the word level. Learners are taught to analyse letter-sound relations once a word is identified.

How does Analogy Phonics work?

Teaches learners to use parts of written words they already know to identify new words.

What is phonological awareness?

An auditory skill that is an important aspect of early childhood development.

What does phonological aware learners focus on?

The sounds that constitute languages, and not on alphabet letters or sounding out the spelling of words.

What are phonics and phonemic awareness?

Co-dependent skills.