1. PHONICS Melissa Reutter DimoniqueDaughtry Lauren Horn

2. Phonics Approaches • 1. Traditional • Bottom-up • 2. Contemporary • Top-down

3. Traditional Approaches • Analytic Phonics Instruction • Whole-to-part • Students are first taught a number of sight words then the relevant phonics generalizations

4. Traditional Approaches • Synthetic Phonics Instruction • Part-to-whole • Students learn sounds of letters and letter combinations • Blends sounds to make words • Identifies which phonics generalization

5. Traditional Approaches • Linguistic Phonics Instruction • Based on highly regular sound-symbol patterns • Students decode words through regular letter patterns DISH FISH WISH

6. Contemporary Approaches • Analogy-based Instruction • Children taught to use knowledge of letters in words pronounced right. ONSETS & RIMES We use letter patterns to read, rather than looking at individual letters and blending them

7. Contemporary Approaches • Spelling-based Instruction • Students are taught strategies for studying words they read and write • Observe students’ writing and invented spelling • Helps determine developmental level

8. Contemporary Approaches • Embedded Phonics Instruction • Students learn phonics skills in the context of stories that make sense