1. Teaching Children Phonics Education Department of Guangdong Guo Zhimei Sep.28,2008

2. How do you teach pronunciation in class?

3. What is phonics? Learning letter-sound relationships in English words

4. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Action Alphabet sounds names letter-sound relationships

5. CAT SHIP FR + OG C + AT SH + IP FROG Read and Spell the words

6. Phonics vs Phonetics

7. Why Teach Phonics? Helping children to pronounce the word correctly and easily. Helping children to spell the word correctly and easily.

8. Why Teach Phonics? To Help children read the new words by themselves. Develop their reading ability.

9. When to teach Phonics? When students …  can recognize some words through listening/sight reading  know enough words to relate the sounds to the meaning of the words

10. How can we teach phonics? 1. Give incidental teaching with the lesson unit. P1,P2, P3-P6 2. Teaching Phonics as a separate unit. from P3 or upper In class

11. Set up the environment  Labels (e.g. labels on furniture)  Interactive word-learning charts name charts alphabet charts word ladders word stairs interactive word walls phonics octopus phonics trees

12. Book resources (e.g. pictorial dictionaries) Word study centre

14. How to teach?

15. I. Start from text books II. Make use of phonics books III. Make use of readers Different Approaches to Phonics Teaching

16. Identify distinct letter sound(s) to teach in each unit or module I. Start from text books

17. Follow what’s given in the book and integrate with book content

18. I. Starting from the textbooks

22. II. Adopt a phonics book

23. Teaching content of phonics book

25. Teaching procedures Introducing the target sound in context Highlight the target letter sound to teach Referring back to phonics book Consolidate or give further/extended practice Establishing the links Teach the sound through practice by ss demonstration by T

26. III. Make use of readers Factors for consideration when selecting reading texts: Students’ interest Students’ strengths and weaknesses Students’ previous knowledge Students’ learning opportunities

27. Shared reading What? –‘Cat and Dog at School’ How? –Reading aloud –Framing words with target sounds

28. Using framers

29. Song singing What? Singing a song that shares the same theme as the story How? – Learning by doing – Highlighting target sounds

30. What materials can we use? stories rhymes jingles songs games tongue twisters poems chants

31. Use of songs Consonant Song Consonant Tree A to Z Song Vowel Song Songs from Phonics Books Children Songs

33. Use of Poems

34. Use of Rhymes

38. Use of Games and Activities Human Words Quick Search Sound Relay Run and Write Boggle Thumb Up Sound Bingo Letter Fan Tic-Tac-Toe Scratch Back Memory Game Sky writing Spelling Game Circle Game Phonics Cloze I Spy

39. Use of Poems I ’ m Mr Whippy, the ice cream van. Bring your money as fast as you can. You hear my music when I come your way. Which ice cream will you have today?

40. Use of Stories Stories written by teachers Five Ugly Ducklings

41. How can we plan a lesson? How long should we teach phonics? Should we teach phonics in the whole lesson? Should we use phonics in every lesson?

42. Some examples from the teachers.

43. 民航广州子弟学校 蔡明芳 Some examples from the teachers

44. Can learning of phonics solve all the problems? Phonics involves the learning of pronunciation and spelling rules but there are lots of exceptions in the rule

45. past what pat paint auction warm again past what pat paint auction warm again Same letter has different sounds

46. Same sound has different letters morefourforwar :c

47. Words sound the same but different spellings there their they’re Words spelt the same but different sounds bow/bow wound/wound wind/wind

48. How phonics learning is incorporated Learnt and used in context by incorporating into integrated learning activities Learnt and practised in structural tasks Reinforced by highlighting the sounds whenever necessary

49. Action Alphabet

50. Some useful websites for ELT http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories http://www.starfall.com/ http://www.kids-space.org/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/tweenies/st orytime/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/tweenies/st orytime/ http://www.learningpage.com/ http://www.mes-english.com/

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