Phonemic Awareness is an integral component of learning to read...
phonics isn't enough!
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Did you know that the English language is the least phonics friendly language with 44 different phonemes, or unique sounds, and over 1200 different spellings? Italian or Spanish, on the other hand, have only 25 or 28 different phonemes and 29 or 32 different spellings.
It is amazing that anyone can tell the difference between all of those sounds, let alone struggling readers or beginners for that matter! Many students struggle on phonics for years while others pick it up almost instantly. This is because some students have stronger auditory skills like auditory discrimination (fluency) and phonemic awareness. As the pyramid below shows, before a student can learn phonics efficiently, she must first learn auditory processing, phonemic awareness and fluency.
Students need to be able to hear all the sounds in a word before they are able to distinguish between them. Researchers agree that phonemic awareness is the most important factor in learning how to read. Without these skills, students will be unable to catch up to their peers in reading ability or get a strong start.
Auditory Processing, phonemic awareness and fluency are essential to learning phonics. Sound Reading's innovative approach to teaching reading does exactly that, as illustrated in the reading pyramid above.
Sound Reading Solutions is the only reading software that triggers the three areas of the brain that guarantees reading success, first addressing phonemic awareness and fluency before the student works on phonics.
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Teaching phonics programs assume students have already learned phonemic awareness and fluency and teach them to read with this assumption. In reality, early readers and older struggling readers need to learn the opposite way - starting with what they already know, the spoken words and sounds, and working backwards to letters and printed word.
Students need to learn the patterns of sounds before they can learn all the rules and patterns that written words follow. Teaching a child to read from speech-to-print is much easier and more effective than print-to-speech instruction.
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Phonics practice is also completely different from regular reading. Students who can read well during phonics practice and in class, often struggle when faced with the same words in a chapter book.
Learning phonics is not as important as being able to apply that knowledge to reading outside of class.
Nearly 98% of reading is actually an auditory process - meaning that strong listeners are also strong readers. Weaker readers have trouble turning spoken word into written word, most likely from a weakness in phonemic awareness. In fact, nearly every child, teen or adult with a reading problem has a weakness in phonemic awareness.
After a student masters phonemic awareness, they must then achieve fluency. Without fluency, words fall out of memory and comprehension suffers. Reading accurately is important, but reading fluently is even more important.
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5 Reasons Phonics Hurts My Brain or
“Fyev Resons Fonics Herts My Brane”
- The English language is the "least phonic friendly" language on the planet earth (other planits may have more fonics, unsertin)
- Phonics teaches rules and exceptions. Students should learn patterns first (there's only some much space in a students BRANE!)
- Phonics bombards the brain with repetition (Owtch,That Herts!)
- Phonemic awareness and fluency must be developed before humans are ready for phonics.
- Auditory processing must come first. Auditory vs. Visual Memory - Reading is about 98% auditory, phonics is 100% visual memory.
Read Bruce Howlett's presentation "10 Reasons Phonics Hurts My Brain" Here
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