All About Teaching and Learning Phonics

[bearbear]

Don’t forget the rewards (e.g. encouraging words, child favorite food, etc) it helps a lot.

[tamarind]

bearbear:

Don't forget the rewards (e.g. encouraging words, child favorite food, etc) it helps a lot.

I agree !

[tamarind]

smurf:

How to teach phonics? :?


I understand that kids should be taught single letter sound first and then follow by three letters words, such as cat, fat, tap, etc.

But what I understand is that some teachers taught phonics in such a way that they teach first letter first and THEN teach the second and third letters together.

For example, the word cat. Teachers only teach the 'c' sound and then followed by 'at' sound.

So it would be c...at. But what I understand from a phonics teacher is that this is wrong. Teachers should teach in this manner:

C...a...t

3 sounds instead of 2 sounds.

smurf,
There are different methods of teaching phonics, Montessori, Jolly, Letterland, Zoophonics, etc Any method is fine so long as the child can understand it easily.

My method is similar to the Montessori method, and is very easy to do at home :
http://tamarindphonics.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-teach-phonics.html

[keltong]

tamarind:

keltong,

Thank you so much for sharing

Yes it is not easy. I was not able to come up with fun ideas every day, more than 50% of the days when I was teaching him phonics, I only asked him to arrange the cards. But he was quite enthusiastic because he knew that I would surprise him once in a while with interesting and fun things to do

Ya..some days just too tired to do anything. But must keep going.

[keltong]

tamarind:

bearbear:

Don't forget the rewards (e.g. encouraging words, child favorite food, etc) it helps a lot.

I agree !

I second that!

[smurf]

Thanks Tamarind.


I thought it would be more difficult for the child next time when he or she has to spell out the words. For example, cat or fat, there is no letter that makes the sound 'at', so it might confuse the child. I thought so. :celebrate:

[keltong]

smurf:

Thanks Tamarind.


I thought it would be more difficult for the child next time when he or she has to spell out the words. For example, cat or fat, there is no letter that makes the sound 'at', so it might confuse the child. I thought so. :celebrate:

Not sure if I am doing it correctly as I am new to this. What I did is let him learn the 2 letter blending before introducing him to the 3rd letter.

So in your example, for 'at', I will go through with him and let him blend 'a' and 't' to form 'at'. Once he is quite certain, I will than intro the 3 letters like 'c', 'h', 'f', 'r', etc...and use 'c' and 'at' instead of trying to break 'a' and 't' again. Sometimes he will stuck when trying to blend the 3 letters and will revise the 2 letter again and than try the 3 letters one more time.

[tamarind]

keltong:

smurf:

Thanks Tamarind.


I thought it would be more difficult for the child next time when he or she has to spell out the words. For example, cat or fat, there is no letter that makes the sound 'at', so it might confuse the child. I thought so. :celebrate:

Not sure if I am doing it correctly as I am new to this. What I did is let him learn the 2 letter blending before introducing him to the 3rd letter.

So in your example, for 'at', I will go through with him and let him blend 'a' and 't' to form 'at'. Once he is quite certain, I will than intro the 3 letters like 'c', 'h', 'f', 'r', etc...and use 'c' and 'at' instead of trying to break 'a' and 't' again. Sometimes he will stuck when trying to blend the 3 letters and will revise the 2 letter again and than try the 3 letters one more time.

keltong,
That was what I did when I taught my boy

[tamarind]

smurf:

Thanks Tamarind.


I thought it would be more difficult for the child next time when he or she has to spell out the words. For example, cat or fat, there is no letter that makes the sound 'at', so it might confuse the child. I thought so. :celebrate:

Don't worry, if phonics is correctly taught, kids will know how to break up the word in their brain and select the correct words.

[keltong]

tamarind:

keltong:

[quote=\"smurf\"]Thanks Tamarind.


I thought it would be more difficult for the child next time when he or she has to spell out the words. For example, cat or fat, there is no letter that makes the sound 'at', so it might confuse the child. I thought so. :celebrate:

Not sure if I am doing it correctly as I am new to this. What I did is let him learn the 2 letter blending before introducing him to the 3rd letter.

So in your example, for 'at', I will go through with him and let him blend 'a' and 't' to form 'at'. Once he is quite certain, I will than intro the 3 letters like 'c', 'h', 'f', 'r', etc...and use 'c' and 'at' instead of trying to break 'a' and 't' again. Sometimes he will stuck when trying to blend the 3 letters and will revise the 2 letter again and than try the 3 letters one more time.

keltong,
That was what I did when I taught my boy :D[/quote]Guess who I learn from? A certain blog that is frequently mentioned in this thread :lol: