Phonics Lesson
What Are The Steps To Teaching Phonics
Phonics lesson plans are the foundation by which you can be better prepared to help your child to begin to learn to read. You must be prepared in order to make the most of your time together and to make the most of your child’s attention span. With an early introduction to phonics, you are giving your child a head start on a lifetime of literacy. A lesson plan must be created with the goal of teaching your child the 44 sounds and the 43 phonics rules of the English language and how to appropriately apply them.
Phonics Lessons
The question is what lesson plan will most effectively accomplish this task? There are numerous websites available that will provide you with sample lesson plans for phonics instruction; however, in this article let’s talk about what you should look for in a strong lesson plan. With just a bit of planning, you can help teach your child to become an accomplished and confident reader. When evaluating any lesson plan, there are several items to consider. Ask yourself these questions. Is the plan creative, interactive and supportive of the early reader’s efforts?
Does the lesson plan utilize a variety of methods, such as textual, visual, audio, etc, to teach the concepts of phonics? Are there multiple opportunities in the lesson for your child to learn, practice, play and repeat what they have learned? It is through hearing and seeing the reading concepts in a variety of ways that your child will conceptualize and then utilize their new found knowledge. When our godchild was an early reader, our friend utilized a lesson plan in which she created personalized booklets together. After she selected the letter she was going to study for the week, she cut the letter out of brightly colored card stock paper.
She then made a small booklet by choosing several sheets of standard size card stock paper and stapling them together in the upper left corner. On the front page, she glued the letter for the week. Throughout the week, she looked through old magazines and selected pictures of items that started with the same letter and sound as her letter of the week. She then glued these pictures to the blank pages of her book and printed the word under the picture. This allowed her to reinforce the recognition of the letter and the sound of the letter.
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By the end of the week, she often had to add extra blank pages because our godchild was so into the fun of searching out those pictures that matched the letter of the week. The booklet proved to be so valuable and became dog-eared from all the use. Teaching phonics to your child only takes a commitment of time and a bit of creativity. Searching for phonics lessons plans will take some time, yes, but believe me when you hear your child begin to put sounds together and then begin to read you will realize it was time very well spent.
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