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Question

Which of the following explicit phonics instructional methods begins with a spoken word and ends
with a written word?

A Embedded phonics

B Analytic phonics

C Synthetic phonics

D Phonics through spelling

Answer

Answer D is the only choice that is explicit, begins with a spoken word, and results in a written word.
The resultant word may or may not be spelled in the conventional manner, but this is still systematic
instruction toward the objective of identifying letters that relate to specific sounds.

It’s important to note that phonics does not equal reading, just as dribbling and passing a basketball
does not equal playing basketball. Good phonics instruction gives students the ability to establish a
solid connection to the Alphabetic Principle and starts them on their way to decoding.

Regional speech differences, different dialects, speech impediments, and other issues result in
different needs for different students. As a teacher, you will have the freedom to emphasize or
combine teaching strategies in order to meet the needs of every individual learner in your class.

Systematic instruction should include significant amounts of time for students to practice segmenting
and blending phonemes, matching graphemes with phonemes, and other crucial skills. Explicit
instruction should include purposeful lessons in which the teacher begins with a specific objective,
models how to perform the objective, and allows students to attempt the objective themselves.

Review

• Blending means combining previously learned phonemes to form words (remember that
segmenting is breaking words up into phonemes).

• Decoding is the use of spelling patterns and phonemic awareness to recognize a word.

• Phonics instruction should be explicit; the teacher takes a deliberate course of action in
introducing phoneme-grapheme relationships.

• Instruction should also be systematic—the teacher organizes the material in a way that
leads students from phonemes to groups of phonemes to words.

• Synthetic phonics starts at the phoneme level and builds toward the word level.

• Analytic phonics starts at the whole word level and then analyzes their component
phonemes.