Here is one expert's take on how Reading Rods ® support best - practices for
teaching alphabetic principle, phonemic awareness, and word structure.
In contrast, the text of the Foorman et al. research holds to the idea that explicitly
teaching the alphabetic principle can prevent reading failure.
Students should be
taught the alphabetic principle and letter recognition as soon as they enter kindergarten.
Not exact matches
Welcome back to another week of
Teaching Kids About Character: An
Alphabetic Blogging Series.
If you are
teaching children the
alphabetic code they decode when they are reading, but they are also encoding with the same code when they are spelling.
In the classroom we are
teaching explicit phonics, the
alphabetic code - the 44 sounds of English.
This is in addition to the
alphabetic and number systems traditionally
taught in schools.
As early as kindergarten, when students are learning the
alphabetic principles, they should be
taught how to properly form their letters.
In Australia, the National Inquiry into
Teaching Literacy (2005) recommended the importance of systematic, direct and explicit phonics instruction so that children master the essential
alphabetic code - breaking skills required for foundational reading proficiency.
For early learners, this involves
teaching basic phonemic awareness and the
alphabetic principle before spending time developing phonics skills and strategies.
Our newest one,
Alphabetic Spellers, is perfect if you're
teaching beginning readers to multiple learners.
Now that your child or student (s) has established the
alphabetic principle and is able to decode basic code words, it is time to
teach them the reading skills needed to decode words containing advanced code.
From the late 1960s onward, phonological methods based on learning the
alphabetic principle — that is, the relationship between letters and their sounds — came into wide usage and dominated the
teaching of reading.
Some identified children simply need explicit and systematic
teaching of the advanced written
alphabetic code to make reading progress.
Check out some of our favorite reading websites for kids that
teach Letter Knowledge, Phonemic Awareness,
Alphabetic Principle (Basic & Advanced Code), Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension!
As we described on the
Teaching Reading Page, we believe the failure to systematically and explicitly
teach phonemic awareness and the advanced written
alphabetic code is the cause of many reading problems identified as learning disabilities.
Teaching Kids About Character
Alphabetic Series — This series covers 26 positive character traits that we'd like to encourage in children.