What is Phonics?
It is a method of teaching reading and spelling that emphasizes the relationship between sounds and their corresponding written symbols.
What is a grapheme?
A letter or a number of lettersthat represent a sound in a word.
What's Phonological Awareness?
It is is the ability to recognize and think about parts of spoken language.
How many phases are there in the letters and sounds program?
6
What are the aspects inside Phonological Awareness?
Environmental sounds / Instrumental sounds /. Body percussion / Rhythm and rhyme / Alliteration /Voice sounds /Oral blending and segmenting
What is the goal of Phonics?
To help students develop the ability to decode unfamiliar words by associating the sounds of spoken language with the letters or letter combinations.
What is a Phoneme?
The smallest unit of a word
What's Phonemic Awareness?
It is a particular level of phonological awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and work with individual sounds, or phonemes, in spoken language.
What's assessment in Phonics?
Evaluate a student's understanding and proficiency in recognizing and manipulating phonemes.
What type of Phonics and program do we use at OLM?
Letters and Sounds/ Synthetic Phonics
What is a digraph?
A grapheme containing two letters that makes just one sound.
What's the sequence of teaching in a Phonics session?
Revisit and review,Teach,Practise,Apply,Assess learning against criteria