Phonics

                From Phonics to Fluency and Teaching Phonemic Awareness were both helpful articles in regards to teaching phonics to elementary students. I thought the words and definitions in From Phonics to Fluency were interesting. For instance, there were some words I had never heard before. Also, there were words I heard before, but I did not know the definition or I did not know the correct definition. Reading this article helped me with my understanding of phonics terminology and the meaning of the terminology.

                Teaching Phonemic Awareness was helpful by explaining how to teach and assess students’ phonics. The article mentioned many texts and games/activities that can help with teaching phonics awareness. My favorite part of the article was the section about assessing phonemic awareness. I have learned some strategies and activities for teaching phonics, but I do not know how I would assess the students’ progress. The article mentioned administering The Yopp-Singer Test of Phonemic Segmentation to assess students’ phonemic awareness (45). The author, also, mentions that there is a correlation between phonemic awareness and students’ reading skills (45). This would be important to consider with assessments because a teacher could correlate a phonemic assessment into a reading assessment in many different ways. Both the articles helped me with understanding how to teach phonics, how to assess phonics, and important words/definitions that I should know about phonics.