PHONICS

ph/on/ics ** The role of phonics in reading is important as it allows children to develop a sound relationship with words which makes reading and spelling easier. Through letter identification a child can form a phonetic sound of a word which helps them break up a word into parts in order to identify the whole word. The child breaks words up into parts which they sound out, for example the word crust can be sounded out as cr/ust which would then help a child read and spell it in future. (Hill, 2006, pp 208-212) Stage two is Onset and Rime which is typically used to help children develop and understand the concept of word groupings or word families. An ‘onset’ is any consonant or group of consonants that comes before the vowel. A ‘rime’ is the vowel and other consonants that follow the onset. This process is normally fairly easy for children to pick up. Stage 3 is Blends. “A blend occurs when two letters are pronounced closely together. Consonant blends can be grouped into two categories, these are; those that occur at the start of single syllable words and those that occur at the end.** **Stage 4 is Digraphs and other letter combinations. A diagraph is a pair of letter which represents a single sound. The sound that a digraph makes is one that neither letter on its own could make. Stage 5 refers to Structural analysis and involves changes to the original words, this includes thing such as adding endings to words such as in like, like-ing or prefixes and suffixes. **
 * PHONICS
 * The process of phonics occurs in 5 stages: **
 * The first stage, involves children’s ability to recognize letters of the alphabet. Children must be able to say and write each letter and can distinguish between vowels and constants.



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