Phonics

Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing of the English language by developing learners' phonemic awareness—the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes—in order to teach the correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns (graphemes) that represent them.

The goal of phonics is to enable beginning readers to decode new written words by sounding them out, or in phonics terms, blending the sound-spelling patterns. Since it focuses on the spoken and written units within words, phonics is a sublexical approach and, as a result, is often contrasted with whole language, a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading (see History and controversy below).

Since the turn of the 20th century phonics has been widely used in primary education and in teaching literacy throughout the English-speaking world. More specifically synthetic phonics is now the accepted method of teaching reading in the education systems in the UK and Australia.

Basic rules of phonics

Cognitive reading skills

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The Next Time You See L.A. Rainclouds,
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Mamunia...
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[VIDEO]: Discovery Of Ancient Sea Monster Skeleton Has Paleontologists Excited

Edit WorldNews.com 16 Oct 2016

The skeleton of an ancient sea monster discovered more than 50 years ago in Scotland has paleontologists excited over the quantity of bones found and anxious to learn more about the reptile, VOA reported Sunday. Using modern fossil extraction methods, the bones of the sea monster was able to be removed from hard rock. The previously unknown reptile lived in the oceans during the time of the dinosaurs, the report said ... ....

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is seen on a large screen as he speaks during a charity event hosted by the Republican Hindu Coalition, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, in Edison, New Jersey.

Donald Trump Claims Election Will Be Rigged at Polling Sites

Edit Time Magazine 16 Oct 2016

Donald Trump refuses to back down from his claim, which has been made without specific evidence, that the upcoming election results will be rigged at polling places. The Republican nominee for president tweeted on Sunday that the election was being rigged at polling places, just hours after his running mate Gov ... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2016....

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File - Russian President Vladimir Putin, watched by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, and U.S. Ambasador to Russia John Tefft, urges his guests to take their seat at the Bocherov Ruche - a government villa - in Sochi, Russia, before a bilateral meeting on May 12, 2015.

Putin Hopeful Russia-U.S. Ties Can Be Restored After Elections

Edit Bloomberg 16 Oct 2016

Russia hopes its ties with the U.S. can be restored after elections regardless of who wins, according to President Vladimir Putin. While Democrat Hillary Clinton so far is aggressive toward Russia and Republican Donald Trump wants cooperation, the Kremlin is not ruling out the possibility that the candidates’ positions will change when one of them becomes the U.S ... 16. Photographer ... ....

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Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces gather ahead of an operation to re-take the Islamic State-held City of Mosul, outside Irbil, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016.

Battling horror of ISIS: Iraq's bloody crisis up close

Edit CNN 16 Oct 2016

(CNN)Thousands dead. Millions more driven from their homes. A future far from certain. This is the situation in Iraq today. The deep-rooted sectarian divide that resurfaced amid the chaos of Saddam Hussein's downfall created a security vacuum that ultimately allowed extremist militant groups like ISIS to flourish. READ MORE. High stakes for Iraq's future ... Read More. CNN looks at Iraq's bloody crisis up close.. THE CRISIS IN NUMBERS ... Replay....

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Moving beyond the solar system to exoplanets

Edit The Hindu 16 Oct 2016

Ever since the first exoplanet (51 Pegasi b) was discovered in 1995 by Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz, there has been renewed activity and interest in this field. The Kepler and K2 missions of NASA have identified thousands of planet candidates. Now there are nearly 5,000 planet candidates, and of these, some 3,397 have been confirmed as planets, according to the NASA exoplanet archive ... This unit began taking data in 2012 ... ....

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Elementary school dyslexia teacher using technology to help kids develop a love of reading

Edit The Dallas Morning News 14 Oct 2016

Leslie Patterson said she knew nothing about dyslexia when she first became an elementary school teacher ... 13, 2016 ... (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News). Staff Photographer ... Making a difference ...   ... Take Flight incorporates a multi-sensory approach that targets "five components of effective reading instruction" including phonics, fluency, vocabulary, reading comprehension and phonemic awareness. ... A helpful solution ... 13, 2016 ... ....

All the Games that Have Passed the British Culture Test

Edit Kotaku 13 Oct 2016

In 2014, the BFI introduced a cultural test for video games to determine whether or not they were British enough to receive tax benefits. The test is based on a points system where developers get cultural points for things like whether the game is set in the UK, the team is staffed by UK developers, and whether its cast features UK actors. The criteria make for fascinating reading ... 1 & 2 Hairy Phonics. 1, 2 & 3 Eye Gaze 1 ... ....

FOLLOWING MAJOR PUSH, SCHUMER SUCCESSFULLY PUSHES FEDS TO FIX RULE THAT DID NOT ALLOW PHOTONICS COMPANIES TO SELL HIGH-TECH PRODUCTS FOR NON-MILITARY USES OVERSEAS; SENATOR PREVIOUSLY URGED FEDS TO IMPLEMENT RULE BEFORE PHOTONICS & OPTICS PRODUCTS WERE PUT ON OVERLY RESTRICTIVE EXPORT CONTROL LIST (Charles E Schumer)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Oct 2016

(Source. Charles E Schumer) 10.11.16. In 2015 Fed's Proposed Initial Rule Would Have Put Optics & Photonics Products On An Overly Restrictive Export Control List, Preventing Companies From Selling, Non-Military High-Tech Products In Foreign Markets ... Schumer ... U.S ... The agencies agreed to rewrite the rule and in the spring of 2016 put forward a revised draft rule that gained the seal of approval from the optics and phonics industries ... ###....

Parents praise Upper Arlington's turnaround to help dyslexic students

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 10 Oct 2016

Every child can learn to read, Upper Arlington schools officials now say, and spotting reading trouble early pays huge dividends over time. That's a sea change from 2010, say local parents of dyslexic students ... They crafted a mission statement and appointed officers, becoming UA-KID ... 30, 2010 ... Struggling readers get immediate help using a phonics-based method called Orton-Gillingham ... "It should be a national model." ... @shangilchrist ....

St. Paul reading effort intensifies, using fun and $530K dyslexia approach

Edit Pioneer Press 05 Oct 2016

About 150 first- through third-graders who attend one of the organization’s eight after-school sites will meet in small-group phonics lessons for a half hour every weekday through May.Related Articles ... The effort costs $530,000 said Brumm, which includes increased staff at the clubs and a nearly $90,000 contract with Groves for training, student assessment and an off-the-shelf phonics curriculum called Sonday System....

Westminster primary schools achieve highest phonics score in inner London (Westminster City Council)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Oct 2016

Results from the 2016 phonics check on Year 1 pupils (ages 5-6), showed 88% met the expected standard ... The phonics check requires pupils to correctly pronounce a list of 40 words and sounds....

N.J. school district to be 1st in state to use town-wide literacy app

Edit NJ dot com 03 Oct 2016

The app will be free to users who download it, but will cost the district $40,000 per year. ENGLEWOOD -- A school district in North Jersey will pay for an app that officials hope will allow kids to start learning at an earlier age ... It will be free to users and offers tutorials to teach young kids, up to the third grade, basic lessons, such as phonics and sight words ... CGI had its final annual meeting last month. ... on Oct ... ....

Let children learn how to play before formal lessons

Edit The Guardian 02 Oct 2016

The results of the latest phonics tests for year 2 children (Four out of five year one pupils pass phonics test, 30 September) demonstrates the folly of teaching young children to read and write before either their fine motor ......

Kentucky Bus Driver Humiliates Boy With Tourette Syndrome, Mother Claims

Edit Inquisitr 30 Sep 2016

A Kentucky mother is outraged after she says her son’s bus driver humiliated him over an incident that took place on the bus earlier this week ... “He can’t control it,” Dickerson said of her son, who is a fifth grade student at Glenn R. Marshall Elementary School in Richmond ... motor tics and vocal/phonic tics ... Vocal/phonic tics involve sound and can include sniffing, throat clearing, grunting, hooting, and shouting....

Phonics test results rise again but poorer pupils lag behind

Edit The Guardian 29 Sep 2016

Phonics method helps close attainment gap, study finds ... Results from the 2016 phonics check, carried out on five- and six year-olds in year one of primary school, showed 81% met the expected standard, a jump of four percentage points compared with 2015 and a 23 percentage point improvement on the 58% pass rate in 2012, when the test was introduced. The phonics check requires pupils to correctly pronounce a list of 40 words and sounds....

Thousands more primary pupils on track to be excellent readers (UK Department for Education)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Sep 2016

The results of this year's phonics screening check show that there are now 147,000 more 6-year-olds on track to become excellent readers since the introduction of the check in 2012. The proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in phonics was 81% in year 1 and 91% by the end of year 2, rises on last year of 4% and 1% respectively....

Literacy foundation awards grant to tribal school

Edit Rocky Mount Telegram 28 Sep 2016

... children and families featured in the stories, reading and writing curriculum as laid out by the NCReady Curriculum resources, Wordly Wise vocabulary instruction, Making Connections comprehension support and intervention tools such as Spires (Phonics), Academy of Reading (Reading fluency) and Making Connection Interventions (Comprehension)....

WatchDOGS Help at Briarwood (Olathe Unified School District 233)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Sep 2016

(Source. Olathe Unified School District 233). Sept. 27, 2016 ~ Ken Canfield is a man of many hats ... program at Briarwood Elementary School. Watch D.O.G.S ... 'I love every minute of it.' ... Watch D.O.G.S ... When you arrive in the morning they have your schedule laid out, which includes being on the playground during recess, helping in classrooms with reading, math, spelling or phonics, and then getting a break to eat with your child or grandchild.'....