Phonics

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Phonics is the rule that governs how letters are to be pronounced, read or wrote to form a particular word. For example the word the ‘cat’ is made up of the letters c, a and t, and is pronounced /c/ /a/ /t/ in which there are three phonics being used to pronounce the word cat. However if the child was to re-arrange the letters say to a, c, t the word cat no longer exists and the word ‘act’ is revealed in its place which means that and a new pronunciation of the word is required although the same letters are being used to create the word. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">The English language this made up of 26 letters and 44 phonemes. Phonemes are the sounds that make a difference to meaning if we use the example of cat again the word cat is made up of three phonemes /c/, /a/ and /t/ but if we where to change the /a/ to an /o/ the word cat is no longer pronounced and the cot is. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">   <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center; display: block">For a list of the common phonemes and they are pronounced please click on the link below. [|http://www.auburn.edu/~murraba/spellings.html] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> ==<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">    **   <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(68, 228, 227)"><span style="color: rgb(56, 89, 220)">T <span style="color: rgb(78, 194, 66)">h <span style="color: rgb(237, 183, 44)"><span style="color: rgb(240, 203, 81)">e  <span style="color: rgb(177, 60, 236)">A <span style="color: rgb(197, 43, 43)">l <span style="color: rgb(114, 227, 228)">p <span style="color: rgb(218, 159, 73)">h <span style="color: rgb(231, 85, 202)">a <span style="color: rgb(81, 87, 219)">b <span style="color: rgb(113, 208, 83)">e <span style="color: rgb(230, 210, 25)">t <span style="color: rgb(134, 68, 233)">i <span style="color: rgb(200, 50, 50)">c <span style="color: rgb(114, 219, 228)">P <span style="color: rgb(212, 123, 22)">r <span style="color: rgb(240, 71, 209)">i <span style="color: rgb(41, 36, 174)">n <span style="color: rgb(92, 222, 27)">c <span style="color: rgb(208, 178, 6)">i <span style="color: rgb(115, 37, 187)">p <span style="color: rgb(216, 59, 59)">l e    ** ==

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">The alphabetic principle is the idea that letters in words usually stand for specific sounds. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> However according to Hill "children require some phonemic awareness and letter knowledge" in order to understand the alphabetic principle. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> ==== <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">**<span style="display: block; font-size: 150%; color: rgb(205, 211, 39); text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(255, 163, 0)">T <span style="color: rgb(185, 45, 172)">h <span style="color: rgb(30, 91, 194)">e <span style="color: rgb(36, 172, 32)">P <span style="color: rgb(186, 188, 11)">h <span style="color: rgb(109, 36, 188)">o <span style="color: rgb(214, 41, 41)">n <span style="color: rgb(45, 215, 193)">i <span style="color: rgb(228, 135, 33)">c <span style="color: rgb(193, 26, 162)">A <span style="color: rgb(36, 74, 178)">l <span style="color: rgb(44, 157, 32)">p <span style="color: rgb(200, 201, 54)">h <span style="color: rgb(115, 42, 207)">a <span style="color: rgb(171, 43, 43)">b <span style="color: rgb(51, 215, 213)">e <span style="color: rgb(238, 164, 23)">t <span style="color: rgb(239, 87, 211)">S <span style="color: rgb(84, 115, 192)">o <span style="color: rgb(80, 236, 65)">n g **   ====

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The following video demonstrates how a word said phonetically incorrect affects the meaning of the word and therefore the meaning of the sentence. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> media type="youtube" key="_pj2Nutu5v8&hl=en" height="355" width="425" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">**<span style="display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center; color: rgb(215, 139, 55)"> <span style="color: rgb(219, 134, 31)"> L <span style="color: rgb(235, 36, 205)">e <span style="color: rgb(91, 135, 215)">t <span style="color: rgb(40, 210, 46)">t <span style="color: rgb(120, 43, 182)">e <span style="color: rgb(233, 47, 47)">r <span style="color: rgb(59, 216, 222)">K <span style="color: rgb(203, 138, 21)">n <span style="color: rgb(232, 33, 164)">o <span style="color: rgb(38, 61, 207)">w <span style="color: rgb(33, 182, 22)">l <span style="color: rgb(144, 49, 191)">e <span style="color: rgb(196, 18, 18)">d <span style="color: rgb(41, 217, 224)">g e <span style="color: rgb(49, 216, 212)"> <span style="color: rgb(75, 226, 217)"> **  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="color: rgb(49, 216, 212)">    <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Letter knowledge is when children learn to identify letters. During this stage children are learning to identify the letters in the alphabet in both lower case and upper case forms, as well letter names, and sounds.

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**  Please click on the link below for a fun sample computer game that children could use to learn phonics. ** http://www.clicknkids.com/SampleLessonSelf.asp ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">