Studying to Learn — Phonics & Early Studying
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Studying to Learn
Studying to learn is not any simple job, and lately our youngsters are being taught at a youthful age than ever earlier than. So how can we get our youngsters able to learn and assist them alongside the best way? By understanding the science behind studying.
The science of studying is a research-based strategy to literacy that focuses on 5 components: phonemic consciousness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. For the youngest readers, two of those components are key: phonemic consciousness and phonics.
What Is Phonemic Consciousness?
The English language include 44 distinctive sounds, or phonemes. Phonemic consciousness is the flexibility to establish these letter sounds and mix them collectively to kind phrases.
Phonemic consciousness doesn’t require that kids acknowledge letters in written kind. Slightly, it requires kids to acknowledge the sounds letters make. For instance, a toddler who shows phonemic consciousness may not know that the phrase CAT begins with the letter C. As a substitute, they’d acknowledge that it begins with the phoneme /ok/.
Phonemes don’t at all times have a direct visible correlation to the letters that characterize the sound. The letters PH, for instance, use the phoneme /f/, whereas the phoneme /s/ might be represented by both a C or an S. The grid under reveals all 44 phonemes, with examples.
Letter Recognition
Letter recognition is the flexibility to establish a letter that’s being proven or to select a selected letter from amongst a gaggle of different letters. As mother and father, it may be tempting to start by instructing capital letters. This is sensible as a result of they’re simpler to write down. The difficulty is, we write in a mixture of capital and lowercase letters. Which signifies that instructing solely capital letters leaves kids at a drawback.
As a substitute, concentrate on studying capital and lowercase letters collectively. Educate your little ones not solely to acknowledge the letters, however {that a} letter makes the identical sound, no matter how it’s printed.
Phonics and early studying
Phonics is the connection between letters and sounds.
As mother and father, we could also be tempted to toss all of the sounds a letter could make at a child without delay: “That is an A and it may well say ah or ay. We will spell it a, ay, ai, a-e, ei, eigh, or ey.”
However that a lot info will simply confuse children. Studying is a cumulative course of. It should be taken one step at a time, with every step constructing on the following.
Under are the ten levels of phonics:
Stage 1: Consonant and quick vowel sounds
Start by instructing consonants and quick vowel sounds within the context of CVC phrases. CVC stands for consonant-vowel-consonant. These are phrases like rag, hen, fib, however, and cub. Through the use of CVC phrases, children don’t have to fret about mixing a number of consonants. As a substitute, they will concentrate on particular person phonemes and the quick vowel sound in every phrase. And since quick vowel sounds are constant, children can extra simply be taught to acknowledge and grasp them.
When specializing in quick vowel sounds, encourage your reader to sound out a number of phrases in a row utilizing the identical vowel. This repetition is vital to studying a sound. As soon as your reader has mastered one quick vowel sound, then it’s time to maneuver on to the following.
Stage 2: Consonant blends
As soon as your baby has mastered quick vowel sounds, it’s time to begin mixing consonants. It is a bit more durable as children want to listen to extra sounds collectively. Some consonant blends embrace gr, bl, and tr.
Stage 3: Double letters and digraphs
Digraphs are two letters collectively that make one sound, similar to ck, ph, and ng. Double letters seem in phrases similar to off, buzz, and pull.
Stage 4: CVCe phrases
Lengthy vowel sounds might be difficult. Keep in mind that checklist of sounds for A above? Seven of these eight spellings make the identical lengthy A sound. Which signifies that instructing lengthy vowels is a course of.
Begin with CVCe phrases similar to cake, rice, and dice.
Stage 5: Phrase ending spelling patterns
Some phrases finish oddly, and studying to acknowledge these spelling patterns may also help children advance their studying. Well-liked spelling patterns to show embrace -tch, -dge, -all, -oll, -ull, -le and -y.
Stage 6: R-controlled vowels
Phrases like for and automotive seem to be they need to use quick vowels, however they don’t. The R controls the sounds, altering it to one thing else. R-controlled vowels embrace: ar, or, ore, er, ir, and ur.
Stage 7: Vowel groups (lengthy vowels)
Vowel groups are two vowels that work collectively to kind a brand new sound. They embrace ai, ay, ee, ea (as in bead), oa, ow (as in row), ie, and igh.
Stage 8: Different vowel groups
These embrace oo (as in quickly), oo (as in ebook), ew, ui, ue, au, aw, augh, ea (as in head), and ea (as in break).
Stage 9: Dipthongs
A dipthong is a sound shaped when two vowel sounds seem in a single syllable, as within the letters oi, oy, ou, and ow (as in cow).
Stage 10: Silent letters
Typically letters don’t make any sound in any respect. These embrace: kn, wr, gn, gh, mb, and silent t (as in pay attention).
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