Read this passage and jot down:
What is the passage about? What instruction
would you need to understand it?
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Phonics & the
Alphabetic Principle
plan & execute
1. What do I do & why do I do it?
2. How can I help my students
break the code?
3. What new tricks & resources
am I taking away?
Reading Framework
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What is Balanced Literacy?
Example of Phonics
teach
t -ea-ch
What did you see me do?
spelling pattern
sound
blend
Definition of Phonics
 Phonics
is the process of identifying
spelling patterns, connecting these
with their phonemes (sounds), and
blending the sounds to produce a
spoken word.
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Why Teach Phonics?
It’s a “deal-breaker” & it must be explicitly
taught.
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FLUENT READING!
Fluent Reading
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The alphabetic
principle is the
idea that letters
represent
sounds.
What you
HEAR
What you
SEE
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FLUENT READING!
Fluent Reading
DOG = d + o + g
= /d/ + /o/ + /g/
What you
HEAR
What you
SEE
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Don’t remember the letter sounds?
cuatu
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Don’t remember the letter sounds?
Watch the video, note if you
have any questions
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Sound Spelling Patterns
Think of as many words as you can with different ways
to spell the sound /ā/, the ‘long a.’
 Short vowels (as in “lamb”)
 Long vowels – “say their name” (as in “make”)
You have 1 minute to write with your
team and then we’ll list them!
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Sound Spelling Patterns
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a_e, ey, a, ai, ei, _ay, eigh, ea
As in:
make, they, lady, rain, vein, play,
neighbor, great
What makes teaching phonics difficult?
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FLUENT READING!
Fluent Reading
One of your students is
struggling with phonics.
In a parent conference, how
do you explain what is
phonics & why it’s
important for their child to
learn?
2 minutes on a sticky note to plan, 2
minute conference, switch roles
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How do you know what soundspelling patterns to teach?
Your Word Study section of the ISAT, based on
STUDENT needs from the QSI Data
Elementary Literacy Text (resource room)
Resource Room Display
Your district curriculum might be in a specific
order
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Phonics Sequence from the QSI
• Emergent – letter sounds and names
• Letter name – short vowels, blends (br, bl,
sr etc.) and digraphs (sh, ch, th etc.)
• With-in word – long vowels, r-influenced
vowels
• Syllables and Affixes – ending sounds,
simple prefixes and suffixes (re-, un-, dis-)
• Derivational Relations – advanced prefixes
and suffixes (mono-, tri-, aud - )
How do you introduce soundPage 513
spelling patterns?
Blending Lesson Sequence
• Introduce the sound-spelling pattern
• Blend words
• Read sentences
• Decodable text reading
• Spelling
IBRDS = “EYE BIRDS”
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I/B
I/B
B/R
D
S
I can identify the ___ sound.
I can blend words with the ___ and ___ spellings.
I can
blend words with the ___ and ___ spellings.
I can sort words with the ___ and ___ sounds
I can read sentences with ___ and ___ words.
I can segment and spell with _____ and _____ words.
I can read a decodable text with ___ and ___ words.
I can spell words with the ___ and ___ sound.
I reread a decodable text with __ and __ words.
I can complete the
weekly spelling test!
How do you introduce soundspelling patterns?
Blending Lesson Sequence
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Introduce the sound-spelling pattern
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Blend words
Read sentences
Decodable text reading
Spelling
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•
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Introduce the sound-spelling pattern
Introducing a
sound-spelling is designed to
strengthen the connection between
the sound and the spelling.
In the video, identify at least 5 things that the
teacher does to strengthen this connection
for his students?
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Introducing the Sound-Spelling
Pattern – techniques
• Tell students the sound; have them repeat the
sounds many times
• Show students the spelling(s), repeat!
• Listen to words WITH and WITHOUT the sound
• Give students memory devices
– Visual images for the sounds (a cow)
– Kinesthetic Motions (where appropriate)
– Stories and poems to remember the sounds
and connect to the visual image and the
spellings
Let’s Practice Teaching
Sound-Spelling Patterns
• With your group, select a sound spelling
pattern to introduce to your students and plan
how you would introduce it to your students.
• Come up with a visual, word and kinesthetic
motion/song (if applicable).
• sh- , ar-, oi
How do you blend the words?
Blending Lesson Sequence
• Introduce the sound-spelling pattern
• Blend the words
• Read sentences
• Decodable text reading
• Spelling
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What is blending?
• Teach explicitly
• Plan blending routines
• Choose words with your sound-spelling
pattern
How do you teach blending?
bed
coast
point
rain
be d
c oa s t
p oi n t
r ain
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Your Turn!
Practice blending with your partner.
Emerging
Ball, bed
Hub, flub
Letter
Name
cat, bat, fat,
tan
With-in
Word
cap, cape
hat, hate
Syllable
Blog, plan,
shop, ship
far, fart,
shark, start
untie
relearn
Inside
Derivational
cat, cats
monologue
Box, boxes Bicycle
Blending Lesson Sequence
• Introduce the sound-spelling pattern
• Blend words
• Read sentences
• Decodable text reading
• Spelling
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Reading Sentences
• Practicing words in isolation is not enough
• Take sentences from decodable books on
Reading A-Z
The weather man said that it is going to rain
tomorrow.
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
• Brainstorm your own
Blending Lesson Sequence
• Introduce the sound-spelling pattern
• Blend words
• Read sentences
• Decodable text reading
• Spelling
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Decodable Text Reading
• Practice decoding and reading the skill in an
entire text
• Find books at the Resource Room or on
Reading A-Z
Blending Lesson Sequence
• Introduce the sound-spelling pattern
• Blend words
• Read sentences
• Decodable text reading
• Spelling
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Spelling
• Shows that they REALLY understand the
sound-spelling patterns.
• Practice everyday
• Final assessment is your spelling test on
Day 5
Pop Quiz!
2 minutes to create hand gestures
with your partner to remember the
steps of IBRDS
I/B 1
I/B 2
B/R 3
D 4
S 5
I can identify the ___ sound.
I can blend words with the ___ and ___ spellings.
I can
blend words with the ___ and ___ spellings.
I can sort words with the ___ and ___ sounds
I can read sentences with ___ and ___ words.
I can segment and spell with _____ and _____ words.
I can read a decodable text with ___ and ___ words.
I can spell words with the ___ and ___ sound.
I reread a decodable text with __ and __ words.
I can complete the
weekly spelling test!
Using the words “phonics”,
“alphabetic principle” & “word
study” explain why your token
for today is a lego.
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The Bottom Line
PHONICS IS A DEAL BREAKER.
We teach these skills explicitly so
that our students can read &
understand text.
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reading copies! One collab. member will take the
“shopping list” for the group to the library
3. Don’t toss the copies. Trade, share, return.