Chapter 8 Teaching Phonics

The stage at which students use their knowledge of letter sounds to read and spell.

• Alphabetic (letter name) phase

• Clusters

• cross-check

• digraphs

Ability to distinguish between similar sounds or similar sounding words.

• Explicit phonics

• Auditory Discrimination

• Basals

• Clusters

Series of graded readers, usually anthologies, used to teach reading.

• Digraphs

• Cross-Check

• Basals

• Alphabetic (letter name) phase

Graphemic representations in which two or more letters represent two or more sounds, such as the sc in scale and the scr in scream. Also refered to as clusters.

• Blends

• Clusters

• Basals

• Digraphs

Another word for Blends

• Basals

• Explicit phonics

• clusters

• high-frequency words

Chunks of words that lend themselves to being pronounceable such as an or ran or bran in branch.

• Pronounceable Word Parts

• Basals

• Word Banks

• Predictable Books

Collections of words that students have learned to read or are in the process of learning.

• Basals

• Word Banks

• Auditory Discrimination

• Clusters

Bokks that are easy to read because they contain elements, such as repeated phrases, rhyme, and also illusutrations, that depict much of the content.

• Clusters

• Consolidated Alphabetic(Orthographic, Within-word) Phase

• Auditory Discrimination

• Predictable Books

Ability to distinguish between similar sounds or similar sounding words.

• Auditory Discrimination

• Basals

• Clusters

• Blends

The stage at which students use their knowledge of patterns, rather than single letters, to read and spell.

• Digraphs

• Consolidated Alphabetic Phase

• Alphabetic Phase

• Blends