https://padlet.com/patrickcakes1996/m42li74mpzh2c7z Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2021-09-28 14:04:11 UTC 2025-10-11 11:38:13 UTC hello@padlet.com patrickcakes1996 https://padlet.com/patrickcakes1996/m42li74mpzh2c7z/wish/1774899781 Phonics is simply put as the relationship between written letters and their correlation to producing sound out of those written letters. The practice of transforming these letters and words into speech is what is commonly referred to as "Decoding". This is taught to us at an early age during our childhood and often times before school. We even subconsciously begin to make the connections between words and their pronunciations just by familiarizing ourselves with the way these letters are produced and often grouped. There are two types of well known Phonic and decoding means of practice. The systematic approach is when letters and their sounds are taught in a logical sequence. The epitome of this idea would be beginning the teaching of phonics one letter at a time through the alphabet and providing a word as an example. The first letter is A, so the word apple would be a great example of the letters pronunciation. The next approach is the explicit phonic instruction method, where the blending of sounds and syllables is used to create and recognize words. According to Reading Horizons, a teacher based site full of reading resources, explicit phonic instruction is also known as synthetic phonics; building words from part to whole  (Horizons). The U.S. Department of Education have released findings based on factual research that explicit phonic teaching is the most effective means of phonic instruction.  ]]> 2021-09-28 14:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/patrickcakes1996/m42li74mpzh2c7z/wish/1774899781 patrickcakes1996 https://padlet.com/patrickcakes1996/m42li74mpzh2c7z/wish/1774997214 While systematic phonic instruction is only one approach to the teachings of word building and pronunciation, it remains to be the building block of the larger picture of reading comprehension and fluency. I was curious to the differences of actual phonic applications and teachings and an article on Reading Rocket struck my interest. "Keep your eyes on the words"  (Submitted by George Barbuto (not verified) on May 2 et al., 2017). This particular rule of thumb stuck out to me because it also applies to my discipline of music. Much like phonic pronunciation and decoding, music is similar in the same sense where letters (notes) are given to the reader (musician) and it's up to them to decode their sounds and meaning. While one note can stand out on its own, it's often that the grouping of notes in a measure combine together to create a bigger picture. In music, when we complete a given measure and tie it to the next, we call it phrasing. It's a perfect analogy of combining letters to make a word and combing words to make a sentence. Now, while a lot of actors and musicians don't necessarily need to look at their lines and music in order to play or act. It is paramount that when they are practicing that they keep their eyes on the words and the music itself in order to maintain focus and learn their meanings. This also applies to teaching phonics and decoding. ]]> 2021-09-28 15:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/patrickcakes1996/m42li74mpzh2c7z/wish/1774997214 patrickcakes1996 https://padlet.com/patrickcakes1996/m42li74mpzh2c7z/wish/1775040243 While explicit phonic instruction provides to be the most successful and widely used form of phonic instruction, it is not the only one. 

• Analogy Phonics: The recognition of using well known words and syllables that rime with unknow words and then blending the two to make an unknown word more familiar. Ex. Brick and kick. Both contain the suffix ick and can easily be transferred to new words with new meanings. 
• Analytic Phonics: Teaching students to identify the relationships between familiar letter-sounds in other words to avoid producing singular sounds on their own. 
• Embedded Phonics: Is exactly what it sounds like. Embedding phonic instruction through text based reading. This tends to grow with the students skill level and is often incidental to the individual. 
• Phonics through spelling: Often what we all start out learning by using phonemes to spell words individually.

]]> 2021-09-28 15:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/patrickcakes1996/m42li74mpzh2c7z/wish/1775040243 patrickcakes1996 https://padlet.com/patrickcakes1996/m42li74mpzh2c7z/wish/1775183848 Print awareness can occur well before students even enter the educational system. It's the recognition of understanding that print is organized in a specific way. Whether the print is organized as a menu, a newspaper, ending credits to a movie, or a newspaper. Print awareness relies heavily on social interaction between adults and a Childs curiosity. Funny enough, McDonalds' was one of the first words (other than my name) that I learned to spell. As a kid we see fast food signs everywhere and identify the relationship between the signs and their specific restaurants. The golden arch's are a clear indication of McDonalds and is a nifty tool to recognize the pronunciation of each letter in its name. This doesn't just apply to fast food or McDonalds though. When word games and engaging with different types of prints as children, we begin to understand the concept of what reading actually is and how to read. Not necessarily how to read full sentences and words right away but the skillset to identify a passage or the front and back of a book. Teachers can apply print awareness through many means of engaging material such as labeling objects around the room, constructing a birthday card or shopping list, working through picture books, and reading books in class.  (Kame'enui, 2002). ]]> 2021-09-28 16:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/patrickcakes1996/m42li74mpzh2c7z/wish/1775183848 patrickcakes1996 https://padlet.com/patrickcakes1996/m42li74mpzh2c7z/wish/1775217417 Fluent reading, much like sight reading music, isn't a skill that occurs over night and can be measured by the individual. In our classrooms we'll begin to notice that not everyone is on the same reading level as one another and a great way to incorporate every students level to par, rather than just silent individual reading, is to begin small segments of silent reading, and then read the passage back aloud after a certain amount of allotted time. Student's will begin to recognize the pronunciation and the relationships words and letters have together this way. However, not all students will be able to keep up at this pace. Partner reading, reading as if one was speaking aloud, and the Read Natural study are all good ways to not only measure how fluent a reader is but how to improve the readers fluency as well. ]]> 2021-09-28 16:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/patrickcakes1996/m42li74mpzh2c7z/wish/1775217417