Phonics

Instruction that teaches the systematic relationship between letters and letter combinations in written language and  individual sounds in spoken language.

• Voocabulary
• Fluency
• Phonics

Teaching a set of useful  sound/spelling relationships in a clearly defined, carefully selected, logical sequence. 

• Explicit Phonics Instruction
• Systematic Phonics Instruction
• Phonics Instruction

The ability to decode words quickly and effortlessly. 

• Automatic Word Recognition
• Letter Knowledge
• Whole Word Blending

The understanding that written letters represent spoken sounds and that these sounds go together to make words.

• Phonics
• Decoding
• Alphabetic Principle

The ability to convert a word from print to speech. 

• Texting
• Decoding
• Phonetic Spelling

Words that can be identified on the basis of sound/spelling relationships and spelling patterns that have been previously taught. 

• Nondecodable Words
• Irregular Words
• Wholly Decodable Words

Reading practice material in which the majority of words are linked to phonics instruction using sound/spelling relationships and  spelling patterns students have been taught. 

• Predictable/
  Patterned Text
• Decodable Text
• Authentic Text

An active process in which students categorize, or group, words and pictures within and across categories to reveal essential differences and similarities among the words.

• Word Sorting
• Word Building
• Word Segmenting

Phonics instruction has its greatest impact on beginning readers in...

• PreK and Kindergarten 
• Kindergarten
• Kindergarten and Grade 1

In this approach, students learn how to use a phonogram, or rime, in a familiar word to identify an unfamiliar word having the same rime. 

• Synthetic PhonicsPhonics
• Analogy Phonics
• Analytic Phonics