RST02A: Phonemic
Awareness This is the
gateway to phonics-based instruction. Students match letters, recognize rhymes,
hear the beats (syllables) separate sounds, blend sounds, and recognize
patterns, including very basic word families. Phonemic
awareness is a frequently misunderstood term--think of phonemic
awareness as sound, letter, and word play. Marilyn Jager Adams
suggests, "phonemes are the smaller than syllable sounds that
correspond roughly to individual letters. The English language consists
of forty-one to forty four phonemes that combine to make words. A few
of these words have only one phoneme; most have a blend. Phonemic
awareness instruction offers opportunities for students to play with,
or manipulate, the phonemes. Reading
Champs Curriculum Unit Guide RST02A-01 provides detailed instructional
units and sample lesson plans which deal with Phonemic Awareness. RST02B: Phonetics This is the
next step on the pathway to phonics-based learning. instruction. Reading Champs Curriculum Unit Guide RST02B-01 provides detailed instructional units and sample lesson plans which deal with Phonetic structures and their applications.
RST02C: Phonics
Phonics and structural analysis provide the framework for the decoding sequence. To simplify matters, shortcut basic word recognition skills practice to include phonics fundamentals: consonants, vowels, and their varients. Structural analysis consists of compound words, prefixes and suffixes,cyllables, and contractions. Rhyming word families are sometimes considered phonics-related but in this handbook--and in Reading Champs instructional practice--they are featured within the heading "structural analysis." Reading Champs Curriculum Unit Guide RST02C-01 provides detailed instructional units and sample lesson plans which deal with Phonics and structural analysis as tools in language construction.
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