Our World Phonics

How to teach
 What is phonological awareness and
how do we teach phonics?

Understanding the phonemic chart

Teaching pronunciation

Phonics skills
Today’s training agenda Sound spelling

Maximizing student engagement and

interaction

Table time

Let’s play a game

  What is Phonological Awareness?
Phonological awareness is an individual's awareness of the phonological structure,
or sound structure, of words. Phonological awareness is an important and reliable
predictor of reading ability.

 What is Phonics?
What is Phonics is part of phonological awareness, phonics is the connection between
Phonological graphemes (letters) and sounds (phonemes). Students who learn phonics are better
able to read and spell simple words.
Awareness?  How do we teach Phonics?
How do we teach The best way to teach phonics is to focus on teaching students the relationship
phonics? between letters and sounds, that’s why we start with single letters that produce a
single phoneme and later build to digraphs (two letters that make one sound) blends
(several letters and sounds pronounced closely together) multi letter vowels (like
‘igh’ -> night), dipthongs (vowels which combine two monothongs (vowels) like
‘ou’ -> flour) and rules that explain pronunciation (like hard and soft C
‘ca’,’cu’,’ci’,’cy’)
 Top

Back
Front
Understanding the
Phonemic Chart Bottom
 Teaching
Pronunciation Common errors include adding extra syllables for silent letters

like li’ke
or stressing the wrong syllables in words

bottle bottle
  Decoding words
 Segmenting
 Addition
 Deletion
 Substitution
 Blending
Phonics Skills
 Phonological awareness
 Syllabication
 Recognition of rhyme
 The purpose:
To help students spell words through application of phonemic
awareness.

By the end of book 1 students should be able to spell any CVC,

Sound Spelling word and many CVCC or CCVC words through applying what
they have learnt
By the end of book 2 students should be able to spell most
CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC words, words with magic e, or multi
letter vowels (though they make some spelling mistakes where
there are multiple ways to spell the vowel sound)
 How many words has each student said in the last 10 minutes?
 If you can count the number, your activity was probably too
slow with too much waiting time.
Remember:
Maximizing student  Two students playing an activity at one time means 12-14
engagement and students waiting for a turn.
interaction  The best activities involve all students at the same time.
 Phonics is all about listening, speaking and reading we need to
maximize our students opportunities to do each.
Table time
 You will be given 1 of the below sets to teach:
1) 4 phonemes ‘b’ ‘t’ ‘d’ ‘p’
2) 2 digraphs ‘ch’ // , ‘sh’ //
3) 2 vowels ‘uh’//, ‘ah’ //
Lets play a You will need to create a simple game to help students identify
game and distinguish between the sounds.
You have 5 minutes to come up with your idea:
Make sure to have the materials ready, 1 group for each set will
need to present and teach everyone else.
 Further Reading
Phonemic Chart - http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/phonemic-chart
Understanding the phonemic chart – Sound Foundations (Adrian Underhill)
Word stress - http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/word-stress