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In this approach, students are actively engaged in determining which letters to choose in order to
represent the sounds in their words. This, of course, corresponds to mandated and useful learning
objectives.

Try some questions about different types of phonics instruction:

Question

Which of the following phonological awareness skills is integral to analogy phonics?

A Knowing that text runs from the top of the page to the bottom

B Recognizing that spoken sentences are composed of individual words

C Knowing how to segment sentences into words

D Recognizing when words begin or end with the same sound

Answer

Answer D is the answer we’re looking for. Choices B and C are similar, and neither of them is integral
to analogy phonics. Choice A, of course, is not integral to analogy phonics, as we are concerned with
what’s happening within words, not with what’s happening with large groupings of them.

Question

What is the primary difference between analogy phonics and analytic phonics?

A Analogy phonics incorporates words from previous lessons.

B Analytic phonics utilizes students’ prior knowledge.

C Analogy phonics uses full words instead of phonemes out of context.

D Analytic phonics uses full words instead of phonemes out of context.

Answer

Answer D is the correct response. Choices A and B are both true statements, but they are true for
both approaches; no difference is described. Choice C is simply a false statement. Choice D points
out the difference between these two approaches, namely, that analogy phonics employs individual
phonemes to complete a word that is partially decoded by analogy. Analytic phonics does not employ
phonemes independent of whole words.