Phonics #6

As I study phonics more and more, it is hard to remember specific rules. There are so many that it is very difficult to keep straight the actual rule and be able to state it without looking at my notes. However, the easiest way to do this is to do the reviews and try to fill them out without looking back on my notes. The basic concepts in this chapter were as follows:

-The 'y' can represent a long i if in the CV pattern, a long e if at the end of a two syllable word such as candy
-w always follows other vowels (few, low, thaw)
-Short vowel sound patters: CVC (jump, hot, pin, back) or VC or VCCe (apple, ox, edge, end)
-Closed Syllables (CVC and VC pattern) ends with consonant phoneme
Exception (these rep long vowels): words in which i is followed by gh (sight, high); o or i is followed by ld (sold, child)

-if e, i, y follows consonant, usually soft consonant

-The long vowel is represented by the symbol with a macron above it
-Long vowel patter: VCe syllable (dine, huge, time, face)
-Open syllable ends with vowel phoneme; CV pattern: fever, solo, me, paper


Sometimes, I feel like learning phonics is a lot of work and I will never use it...just to be honest. BUT, I will try really hard to want to learn it and see how it can be beneficial because as I have learned, it is much easier to remember sometime if you can see the importance behind it. This has been really good for me to see because many times students do not think they will ever use math, therefore it is really hard to want to learn it, making it really hard to remember it. So - even if I never use phonics again, it has been good for me to do this so I can relate to my future students.

Fox, B. (2010). Phonics and structural analysis for the teacher of reading. (10 ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.