As I observed, took notes, and participated, I realized that this program provided me with all of the tools I had lacked to teach
phonetic skills in an organized, understandable, concrete manner.
For example, I use hip - hop music to reinforce alphabet skills; games like scrabble and hangman to reinforce
phonetic skills, and poems and songs to support the teaching of phonics to older ELL students.
The Reading Horizons Online Reading Workshop simplifies the challenge of teaching reading into simple and powerful skills that clarify how to read, including: the Five
Phonetic Skills, Two Decoding Skills, and the 42 Sounds of the Alphabet.
The goal is for students to have solid
phonetic skills well before they leave elementary school.
Not exact matches
In addition, the students must all speak the same dialect (Spanish has no important dialects), and the native tongue must be a
phonetic language with a Roman alphabet (otherwise few of the
skills learned in the native tongue can be transferred to English).
For example, the use of grammar chants is a great way to help students pick up pronunciation
skills through repetition.Teaching the IPA (International
Phonetic Alphabet) is too challenging at this point as learners are already overwhelmed with the challenges of learning a language.
There are a minimum number of words used for these that are either not on earlier lists or easily decodable using
phonetic decoding
skills.