Dr.+Watkins+Page

This is the site I used to find my information about phonics and an activity. I learned that phonics and word recognition(or sight words) are two different things. Phonics is a method for teaching reading that relates to phonemes and graphemes in a systematic and predictable pattern. The knowledge students use in phonics to sound out words (or decode) can be used to figure out other words in print. On the other hand, sight words has to do with instantly reading a word as a whole and not examining or sounding out its parts. I also learned the term " diphthong ". A diphong is the combination of two vowels together in a sound producing a single glided sound (oi in oil, ow in flower and ou in out). The final thing i learned about phonics is that you can assess a student's phonics skills by assessing her with a running record which is one of the assessments we have for our portfolio.

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