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You probably know more than you think you do! How did you learn to read? Probably by sounding out letters and words. Phonics is about sounding out and decoding words in order to spell and find meaning. Initial, medial, and ending consonants, blends, and digraphs; vowels and vowel combinations, r-controlled vowels; affixes, prefixes and suffixes, compound words, possessives, suyllabication, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, homophones, etc. Phonics overlaps into grammar and spelling. You could almost take your weekly spelling list and find the sound pattern and teach that for phonics. For instance, next week our spelling words have the "sh" sound so you could spend time working with words with the same sound. Find more words to expand the spelling list and get the kids practicing using the sound. To test you could leave off parts of words, have kids pick words from a word bank to fill in sentences (cloze), or create multiple choice bubble tests for kids to pick the right word, putting words that sound similar to make sure the students can discriminate sounds like switch, swing, swim or fish, fill, fix. Our school uses Intensive Phonics taught by a reading specialist starting in K along with the Harcourt Phonics workbook. I don't even know how Intensive Phonics works not having had the training. Now I hear there is new phonics program called Wilson. I don't know anything except that the special ed. dept. is using it and we all may switch to it. Hope this helps! You could probably find resources on the web, too.
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