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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.
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)
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 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
By Jackie White, Kathy Moore, Kelley Turner, and Mike Christopher.
“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.
Vowel, consonant, vowel your way to better reading
This is a lesson for Secondary Special Education Teachers who teach exceptional children who are reading at the second grade level. Students will learn decoding patterns using vowels and consonants to divide words into syllables in order to sound out the word.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
By Julie Wilson.

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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.