Phonics
What is Phonics?
The sound and letter blends that make up words
What is decoding?
The act of sounding out words using phonics
What is explicit teaching?
Directly giving the information, concise and to the point.
Name a color in our PowerPoint
Blue, green, white, orange, yellow
Phonics is the relationship between written letters and what?
sounds
Is decoding explicit or systematic?
Systematic
What is systematic teaching?
Teaching phonics in a sequence from simple to complex
What were the “Bs” doing in the letter factory video
singing/orchestra
What is the alphabetic principle?
All letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken language
Correctly decode this word: brown
open ended
Which one (explicit or systematic) builds on students' previous student's experiences?
systematic
Name one thing you learned from our PowerPoint
open-ended
BONUS:
Say Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis and guess what it means