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2. Phonics - Wikipedia

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   Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

3. The Letter People - Wikipedia

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   Alpha One, also known as Alpha One: Breaking the Code, was a first and second grade program introduced in 1968, and revised in 1974, [8] that was designed to teach children to read and write sentences containing words containing three syllables in length and to develop within the child a sense of his own success and fun in learning to read by using the Letter People characters. [9]

4. Balanced literacy - Wikipedia

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   Balanced literacy is a theory of teaching reading and writing the English language that arose in the 1990s and has a variety of interpretations. For some, balanced literacy strikes a balance between whole language and phonics and puts an end to the so called reading wars. Others say balanced literacy, in practice, usually means the whole ...

5. Phonological awareness - Wikipedia

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   Phonemic awareness is a subset of phonological awareness that focuses specifically on recognizing and manipulating phonemes, the smallest units of sound. Phonics requires students to know and match letters or letter patterns with sounds, learn the rules of spelling, and use this information to decode (read) and encode (write) words.

6. List of phonics programs - Wikipedia

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   United States. Open Court Reading; name changed to "Imagine It!" in 2008. Orton-Gillingham. Phono-graphix (1993) – developed by Carmen and Geoffrey McGuinness. Preventing Academic Failure (PAF) program (1978) Reading Mastery by SRA/McGraw-Hill, previously known as DISTAR. Smart Way Reading and Spelling (2001)

7. Synthetic phonics - Wikipedia

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   Overview. [edit] Synthetic phonics refers to a family of programmes which aim to teach reading and writing through the following methods: [ 2 ] Teaching students the correspondence between written letters ( graphemes) and speech sounds ( phonemes ). For example, the words me and pony have the same sound at the end, but use different letters.