After completing the reading for the week, consider these questions:
Where does phonics instruction fit within a comprehensive literacy program? When and how would you teach phonics?
Where does phonics instruction fit within a comprehensive literacy program? When and how would you teach phonics?
I believe that phonics instruction is an important component to the comprehensive literacy program. Phonics should not be taught in isolation. It should be incorporated into readers' workshop and writers' workshop to promote students' success in reading and writing. I believe that it is important for primary grade students to learn the basic phonological skills to help them sound out unfamiliar words and blending letters together to make words. We should teach reading with the integration of phonics to help struggling readers decode words. Students need to be taught phonics in context so that they are able to make connections. Phonics instructions should be integrated into daily instruction. It should be taught during shared reading, mini-lessons, guided reading, individual reading/writing conferences, modeled writing, shared/interactive writing. I particularly like to teach phonics during guided reading because this is one step away from independent reading on the gradual release continuum. I would teach a mini-lesson on different reading strategies including phonological, phonemic awareness, phonics, and decoding. Then I allow the students to apply the strategies during reading with me present to scaffold and support them during the reading. I would observe and assess the students that are applying the strategy taught in the mini-lesson to help them figure out unknown words in the text. This will allow for me to determine who will need additional help with individual reading conference.
Hi Loan,
ReplyDeleteI also think phonics is an important part of a literacy program and that it is most effective when it is taught with other skills that build reading comprehension. I like how you explained your scaffolding technique of teaching phonics. To begin with a mini lesson that focuses on explicit skills then have the students practice their newly acquired skills is very beneficial. Students can learn from teacher modeling and then they get their own time to demonstrate their knowledge.
I also believe phonics is an important part of the comprehensive literacy program. It's important to teach phonics with other aspects of the literacy program. Guided reading a one way I incorporate phonics into my students learning. I tend to model for my student through the use of mini lessons on a particular comprehension or phonics skills. Students respond very well to teacher modeling, and I feel it is a necessary component of teaching. Students are able to see how to apply the skill in context and then practice on their own or with a buddy. Phonics should not be taught in isolation but in all areas of literacy ranging from guided reading, shared reading, independent reading, and even being exposed into the writer's workshop approach.
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