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The hallmark of programs of systematic phonics instruction is the direct teaching of a set of letter-sound relationships in a clearly defined sequence. The set includes the major sound/spelling relationships of both consonants and vowels.
The best approach to beginning reading instruction is one that incorporates explicit instruction in five areas: phonological awareness, systematic phonics instruction, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension (National Reading Panel, 2000).
Why is Systematic Phonics Instruction important? Since systematic phonics instruction introduces phonics units and sight words a few at a time, kids develop mastery. They can read phonics books with high accuracy.
Systematic phonics instruction follows a sequential and planned set of phonics elements that gradually builds from base elements to more subtle and complex structures. Teachers follow a scope and sequence, as opposed to implicit phonics instruction that addresses phonics as it comes up in text.
This Educator’s Toolkit provides practical ways to incorporate instruction in one of the 5 Big Ideas, systematic phonics instruction, within your classroom. Phonics instruction teaches the idea that letters, and groups of letters, match individual sounds in printed words.
Systematic and explicit phonics instruction is the most effective method for teaching children how to read. The reading and cognitive science research prove that systematic, explicit phonics is essential for kids’ reading success.
Explicit, systematic phonics instruction aligns with the way the brain’s reading network functions and supports the development of the neural pathways that make proficient reading possible. Early in the literacy journey, phonics instruction includes helping students understand the alphabet principle—the idea that letters represent sounds in ...
In implementing systematic phonics instruction, educators must keep the end in mind and ensure that children understand the purpose of learning letter sounds and that they are able to apply these skills accurately and fluently in their daily reading and writing activities.
This chapter explains how beginning readers are taught the alphabetic principle using systematic and explicit phonics instruction in the first few years of school.
Systematic phonics instruction teaches beginners the major grapheme-phoneme correspondences and how to use these to decode and spell words.