Part I:

Choral reading and echo reading can be used to help struggling readers develop phonological awareness, phonological analysis, phonics and fluency. Do you agree with this statement? 

If yes, why? If no, why not?

 

Yes, I do agree that it is helpful. It allows the students to learn in a less stressful way (unlike being put on the spot to read individually) and it also allows a larger group to experience repetition of the phonological components to increase fluency.

 

Part II:

List and describe three ways you could scaffolding development of phonics with words from both informal and academic language (hint: be sure to include teaching word parts and/or cognates)

 

1. Synthetic phonics is a method that examines every spelling within the word individually as an individual sound and then blending those sounds together. For example, card would be read by pronouncing the sounds for each spelling and then blending those sounds orally to produce a spoken word, "card."

 

2. Analytic phonics is the method of analyzing sound-symbol correspondences, but students do not blend those elements as they do in synthetic phonics lessons. Teachers can help students learn new words by their knowledge of others. For example, a student may not know how to pronounce the word SHROUD but because they know the word PROUD, a teacher can show them how to analyze that the words are similar phonetically.

 

3. Embedded phonics is the type of phonics instruction used in balanced language programs. Phonics skills are taught within the context of real literature and real life events. Teaching vocabulary and then reading literature rich with that vocabulary is a way to use this method.