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Phonics Fun
Kid Pix Deluxe software is needed for this lesson. Using this program, students will decode and blend one syllable short vowel words and words ending with silent "e" to match pictures with words as well as spell names of pictures.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
By Jo Voigt.
Painting the Alphabet
After working on numerous letter names and sounds, the children will use a paint program to draw a picture and write the word to name the picture. The pictures will be printed out to make a class book or alphabet page.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
By Jackie White, Kathy2 Moore, Kelley Turner, and Mike Christopher.
The Long and Short Of It!
This lesson will assist children in recognizing and discriminating short and long vowel sounds.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
“ottos mops” by Ernst Jandl
This lesson is designed for students to enjoy a short amusing poem, as well as refine their knowledge of short “o” and long “o” sounds, and use higher order thinking skills to analyze who or what otto and mops are.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
By Helga Fasciano.
Magic E: Decoding/Encoding with CVC & CVCE
Students will participate in two activities involving the consonant-vowel-consonant-silent e (CVCE) pattern: a decoding activity involving attaching a clothes pin with the letter e printed on it to consonant-vowel-consonant words (CVC) and sounding the new CVCE words; and an encoding activity involving dictation of CVC and CVCE words from the first activity which students are to write using auditory and tactile strategies. These activities require that students have prior knowledge of consonant and long and short vowel sounds as well as blending of these sounds in CVC pattern words.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
By Julia Huff Jerome.

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The study of letter-sound relationships in reading and spelling. Phonics is used to teach letter-sound relationships to beginning readers by having them sound out words.

See also whole language.

Additional information

Phonics is a skills-based model of instruction that focuses first on sounding out letters, then words, then passages. Advocates argue that this model helps children develop independent reading skills by being able to decode words on their own.

At one time, reading instruction consisted of either phonics or whole language based, with strong advocates on either side of the "reading wars." Most educators now seek to establish the proper balance between phonics and whole language reading instruction.