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Mr Chia Kok Hwee (Joyful)
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Date Posted: 08:53:54 09/14/06 Thu
In reply to:
thiaga12
's message, "Phonics Teaching" on 09:26:43 09/19/05 Mon
Five pedagogical principles of effective phonics teaching:
1. The first principle is to systematically teach the most common pronunciations (i.e., phonograms) that most children will encounter in their early sight reading and written work. The teacher can emphasise the various deviations at a later stage.
2. The second principle is to teach the relationship of sounds (phonemes) to letters (graphemes) within the context of a word rather than as isolated letters and sounds. When words are divided into separate sounds and each sound-letter match is taught in isolation, the sounds become very artificial, even distorted.
3. The third principle is to emphasise meaningful rather than abstract, letter-sound drill. The phonics teacher can focus on comprehension by asking the children to answer riddles based on sounds, letters or sound-letter relations. In other words, each time the teacher asks a child to identify a certain word, the purpose for identifying the word is related to the meaning of the word.
4. The fourth principle is to decide if the instruction should be inductive or deductive. An inductive phonics approach gives children many examples of a phonic pattern so that they can develop their own phonic generalisation. A phonic generalisation is a statement or rule that indicates under which condition(s) a letter or group of letters represents a particular sound or sounds. The younger children may find such a task difficult. For them, a deductive phonics approach would be more appropriate, i.e., a phonic generalisation or rule is first taught and then the children are invited to give examples of words that obey it.
5. The fifth and last principle stresses the importance of teaching phonics (letter-sound relationships) as a strategy in word recognition.
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