Teaching Phonics A Consonant Blend and Digraph Matthew

Teaching Phonics A Consonant Blend and Digraph Matthew Turnbull and Josh Ward-Jackman

What is Phonics �‘A method of teaching word recognition or decoding that emphasises the sound-symbol (letter) relationship that exists in language’ (Rasinski & Padak, 2008). �Being able to understand the letter-sound relationship.

What Will Be Discussed �Various Approaches and Strategies to Teaching phonics to a grade 1 class �How they link to the State and National Curriculum documents �How students can develop their knowledge of soundletter relationship.

Approaches Teaching Phonics – Analogy Approach �Teaching students about word families �helps the students gain an understanding of patterns in words �Helps to practice and apply what they have learnt in different contexts. (Fellowes & Oakley, 2010)

Analytical Approach �Helps Develop an understanding by analysing a word �Often occurs in the contexts or reading books and shared reading (Fellowes & Oakley, 2010)

Embedded Phonics Approach �This approach focus on the teaching of phonics and is taught within the context of reading (Fellowes & Oakley, 2010) � In this approach children are taught to use context cues such as semantic and syntactic cues to understand identify words

Teaching Phonics Through Spelling �Allows the students to practice thinking about the sequence of sounds in words and how they might be represented �Involves invented spelling, where children spell the word phonetically, that means they represent the sounds they hear and spell the word accordingly. �Eg. Monster (Monstr) and Dog (Dg)

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Consonants Blends �Are the names given to two or three consonants that appear together in a word. �Each consonant retains its sound when blended. �Consonant blends only contain vowels and can help students develop an understanding of how 2 or more consonants can sound when blended.

Consonants Blends �Words that contain R, I and S blends are ideal to start teaching to students of grade 1 class. �Words Such as : Clap, Drum, Flat, Skid, Sled, Plan, Swat and trip – All words that are part of the National Curriculum strategy for year 1. �Can be quite challenging to teach year 1’s as they must have and idea of single sound spelling of words.

Consonants Blends �Many Creative Ways to Teach Consonant Blends. �Games such as Phonics Bingo and Word Spinners Word Family Posters

Consonant Digraph �Made up from two consonants which join together to produce a single sound �The most common consonant digraphs are ch-, sh-, th -, ph- and wh and are all useful to start words �helps the students develop and understanding about dual letter sounds.

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Principles of Phonics Teaching �Phonics should be taught discretely as a major approach to teaching early reading. �The Rose Report (2006) explains that high quality phonic work is most effective when it is part of a broad curriculum. �Works best when employs a range of multi-sensory activities to develop children’s oral language and phonics skills.

Principles of Phonics Teaching �In Early years of schooling (grade 1) phonics should be taught everyday and reinforced across curriculum. �Careful assessment is vital to ensure no student falls behind

State and National Curriculum - English/Literacy �The Australian English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of Language, Literature and Literacy �Literature �Literacy �Language

State and National Curriculum - English/Literacy �By the end of Year 1 students should be able to listen to, read and view a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, recognising the different purposes of these texts.

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