Presents some activities in the use of phonic analysis and context clues for the reading disabled student at the secondary level. (RB)

The paper describes an approach to teaching phonics to hearing impaired 12-15 year olds through a microcomputer. Under the guidance of a teacher, a standard phonics textbook is paired with phonetic and phonologic practice on the computer. Students proceed through the materials at their own pace. Three phases of learning are featured: (1) exposure…

Outlines the story of one first-grade student's successful struggle with learning to read. (MD)

This article discusses the continuing controversy of whole language versus phonics. It discusses both systems--how to plug the holes in them, and how to combine the two approaches, making for stronger instructional tools. The article also explains the analytic model of teaching reading. The article offers a series of recommendations for teachers,…

Suggestions are made for incorporating finger-spelling with sound blending in spelling instruction for handicapped and nonhandicapped children. Teaching materials are described, and five steps in teaching how to spell a three letter word are listed. (CL)

Discusses the phonics v whole-word controversy in the teaching of reading and defends the use of the phonics approach for certain purposes. (DD)

Data from a 10-year study involving over 1,000 dyslexics, age 7-15, went into the development of the Alphabetic Phonics curriculum. One aspect of the curriculum, the Syllable Division Formulas, is described. It emphasizes scientific, automatic, multisensory procedures for dividing longer words into easily read syllables. (Author/JDD)

Traditional methods of teaching spelling emphasized that pupils might write each new spelling word correctly and repeatedly from a weekly list in the spelling textbook. Some weaknesses in this approach are that rote learning is being stressed without emphasizing application of what has been learned, and that there is nothing which relates the…

Teaching suggestions are offered for teaching spelling to poor spellers strong in auditory processing skills but weak in visual processing skills. (Author/DB)

This article introduces Making and Writing Words Using Letter Patterns (MWW-LP), a variation of the popular Making Words word study and spelling instructional activity. Research indicates that proficient readers use knowledge of letter patterns such as onsets, rimes, and affixes to decode unknown words. The MWW-LP activity uses such letter…

Intended for teachers of grades K-2, this book is a practical resource manual designed to provide step-by-step suggestions for assessing and instructing students' phonics skills and strategies. It presents phonological awareness as a foundation and preparation for phonics instruction and integrates the two so they become reciprocal. In addition,…

This book outlines progression in teaching and learning phonics in seven steps which are linked to the objectives in England's National Literacy Strategy Framework for Teaching. Activities for whole-class teaching are suggested for each step and instructions and materials for these activities are provided so that phonics may be taught in a lively,…

This concise book shares several sensible, logical, and meaningful approaches that guide young children to use the written coding system to read, spell, and make meaning of the English language coding system. The book demonstrates that phonics, spelling, and word study are essential parts of literacy learning. After an introduction, chapters are:…

The teaching of phonics, the relationship of sounds to letters in an alphabetic language like English, is important for success in learning to read competently. Noting that there continues to be much debate as to what constitutes good phonics instruction, this paper presents a rather simple but basically sound and inexpensive approach for teaching…

A method of teaching phonics to primary grade disabled readers which combines analytic, synthetic, and linguistic methods is described. The method involves starting with sight words, starting phonics synthetically with consonants, teaching other consonants analytically, adapting linguistic methods for vowels, and encouraging the use of context.…