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	The Partnership for Reading -- Explore the Research -- Phonics Instruction
		Phonics instruction teaches children the relationships between the letters (graphemes) of written language and the individual sounds (phonemes) of spoken language.
		The goal of phonics instruction is to help children learn and use the alphabetic principle - the understanding that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds.
		The hallmark of systematic phonics instruction is the direct teaching of a set of letter-sound relationships in a clearly defined sequence.
	www.nifl.gov /partnershipforreading/explore/phonics.html (392 words)

	Phonics
		Commercial phonics programmes will be submitted to a panel of experts to ensure they meet standards being drawn up by the Government, based on the findings of the Rose Review which examined methods for teaching reading.
		They agree that knowledge of phonics has a vital contribution to make to literacy, and know that there are many effective ways of introducing very young children to sounds and letters in contexts that make sense to them.
		It is important for primary teachers to know about the structure of language, including phonics, but those working with the youngest children must also be aware of the individual nature of their learning, so they can build on their interests and experience.
	www.literacytrust.org.uk /Database/Primary/phonics.html (4984 words)

	Phonics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A phonogram, known in linguistics as a rime, is composed of the vowel and all the sounds that follow it.
		Embedded phonics differs from other methods in that the instruction is always in the context of literature and that separate lessons are not typically taught.
		Phonics is the core of beginning reading programs like Hooked on Phonics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phonics (2599 words)

	Research and Readinga-z.com - Phonics
		Phonics teaches developing readers the relationship between phonemes (sounds of oral language) and graphemes (letters that represent sounds in print).
		Phonics instruction is a component of reading instruction, but it should not constitute the entire reading program.
		Phonics instruction is greatly enhanced when it provides ample opportunity for students to practice the sound/symbol relationships they have been taught.
	www.readinga-z.com /research/phonics.html (730 words)

	Phonics - A Pre-Reading Skill - Reading Skills Pyramid - Time4Learning
		Phonics is the understanding of how letters combine to make sounds and words.
		Phonics skills grow through reading activities, and students learn to distinguish between vowels and consonants and understand letter combinations such as blends and digraphs.
		While a phonics curriculum is a critical step in learning to read, many parents and educators forget that before you can succeed with a phonics curriculum, you must teach phonemic and phonological awareness.
	www.time4learning.com /readingpyramid/phonics.htm (642 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Education \| Primary reading set for overhaul
		Phonics is used in most schools, but not necessarily in a systematic or prescriptive way.
		It calls for "early systematic, direct teaching of synthetic phonics" to be the first strategy taught to all children learning to read, introduced by the age of five.
		Many schools in England already use phonics, combined with other methods to help children to read, but proponents of synthetic phonics argue it should be followed strictly and not be mixed with other approaches.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/education/4485062.stm (771 words)

	Phonics - Resources
		Phonic Books was set up to bridge the gap between learning initial phonics and the first level in available reading schemes.
		Fast Phonics First is a 16-week programme for teaching phonics, based on a method piloted in Clackmannanshire in Scotland by Dr Joyce Watson and Professor Rhona Watson (More).
		Living Phonics is designed to teach children in Reception and Key Stage 1 the basics of reading and writing, including teaching the phonemes, graphemes and cursive handwriting.
	www.literacytrust.org.uk /Database/Primary/phonicsresources.html (2160 words)

	Reading Online - Electronic Classroom: Phonics Websites
		We contend that phonics knowledge provides a foundation for children's early reading development since "the ultimate purpose of phonics instruction is to help children acquire the ability to read and write" (Savage, 2001, p.
		Phonics instruction in these technological times means computers, and the Internet can be a valuable resource to teachers who wish to provide drill-and-practice opportunities, particularly for students who seem unmotivated to learn.
		Phonics websites should be evaluated to determine whether they are likely to capture students' interest, hold their attention, and provide phonics knowledge at the same time.
	www.readingonline.org /electronic/webwatch/phonics (1928 words)

	Phonics
		The idea of phonics is that you teach your students the various sounds that English letters have.
		It is actually one of the methods recommended by the Ministry of Education and the influence phonics has on the kids ability to read cannot be underestimated.
		Not only is there this talking Phonics pageon the site, I've now produced some phonics worksheets for you to use in class.
	www.genkienglish.net /phonics.htm (1734 words)

	phonics
		Phonics is the way that specific sounds (phonemes) are related to specific letters (graphemes) or combinations of letters (Rinsky, 1997).
		From an interactive perspective, phonics in context means teaching students how to use knowledge of phonics as a strategy to read and write words within the context of a balanced literacy program.
		Some teachers find it reassuring to have a phonics checklist of some kind to ensure they are addressing the important phonetic elements in their literacy program.
	www.selu.edu /Academics/Education/TEC/phonics.htm (2282 words)

	All About Reading: Sounding Out Phonics
		Phonics is knowing that sounds and letters have a relationship — it's that simple, and that complex.
		Phonics offers your beginning reader the strategies she needs to sound out words.
		Beyond phonics: word endings, like "ed" and "ing," and more sight words, such as is, was, have, and are.
	www.scholastic.com /familymatters/read/grk_2/phonics.htm (857 words)

	Phonological Awareness and Reading Recovery
		A frequently asked question about any program designed to teach literacy concerns the role of "phonics." Phonics is usually described as "instruction in the relationship between letters and speech sounds." The goal of phonics is not that children are able to state 'rules' governing letter-sound relationships.
		Phonics ought to be conceived as a technique for getting children off to a fast start in mapping relationships between letters and sounds.
		Instruction in the program explicitly recognizes phonological awareness and orthographic knowledge; however, for any form of phonics instruction to be helpful to many of the Reading Recovery children, we must also establish basic concepts about print, like the difference between a word and a letter and the directional conventions of English.
	www.readingrecovery.org /sections/reading/phonics.asp (1025 words)

	Synthetic Phonics information - Synthetic Phonics course
		At the moment, guidance is that phonics should be used as one of four methods of teaching children to read.
		Phonics is back in vogue in reading education, and one program being used in a handful of Wyoming schools - including Willard Elementary School in Casper, where Bush teaches - is proving a success.
		Synthetic phonics are taught proactively and systematically to children from the age of about five by showing them the sounds of the letters (not the letter names) and how these sounds can be blended to run together to make short words.
	www.synthetic-phonics.com (1506 words)

	Phonics Instruction
		The paper emphasizes that phonics should be taught as a means to an end, not an end in and of itself.
		The paper then discusses the different philosophies of phonics instruction: advocates of the basics believe that there is a core of phonics principles and generalizations that students should learn and use, while there are other teachers who emphasize a strong program of phonics instruction with a well-developed scope and sequence.
		AB: Analyzes phonics teaching and learning in eight whole-language first-grade classrooms from October through May. Finds that foundation concepts (phonemic and phonological awareness, phonemic segmentation) and letter-sound relationships were taught and that teachers differentiated phonics instruction based on learned development and ongoing assessments.
	www.indiana.edu /~reading/ieo/bibs/phonics.html (3694 words)

	Phonics Tool Kit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I expect this to be a great tool for teachers as they work to improve their phonics expertise.
		Phonics is meant to complement other appropriate methods of instruction.
		The purpose of the Phonic Tool Kit is to provide Kindergarten through Grade 3 classroom teachers with information that will help to increase their comfort levels with print awareness, phonemic awareness, phonics, and structural analysis.
	doe.state.in.us /publications/phonics.html (650 words)

	PhonicsTutor: Phonics Software for K-12, Dyslexia and ESL with Reading Lesson Plans
		The phonics lesson plans in PhonicsTutor include presentation and investigation of the words, word analysis, word pronunciation, and a spelling test.
		It makes the crucial connection between grammar, meaning, and phonics that is missing in most other phonics programs.
		Phonics Tutor is superior in that it combines all three of these essential subjects into one comprehensive program.
	www.phonicstutor.com (991 words)

	Phonics
		The goal of phonics instruction is to teach students that there are "systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds" (Put Reading First, p.12).
		At the center of the recommendations regarding the teaching of phonics is the importance of systematic and explicit phonics instruction (Put Reading First, pp.
		Include practice in reading texts that are written for students to use their phonics knowledge to decode words.
	www.ncpublicschools.org /readingfirst/components/phonics (292 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Education \| Primary reading lessons reviewed
		Techniques such as "synthetic phonics" - the building up of words from simple letter sounds - will be investigated, with a view to using them more.
		Synthetic phonics is already used in England as part of the National Literacy Strategy, introduced in 1998.
		In a project in Clackmannanshire, all children were exposed to synthetic phonics throughout primary school - almost to the exclusion of other methods.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/education/4604197.stm (509 words)

	Frontline Phonics - learn to read, preschool phonics reading program
		Frontline Phonics is dedicated to the ideal that literacy is attainable for every child.
		Our phonics program is the result of a long-term (and ongoing) study of kids learning to read.
		Over the years Frontline Phonics has been refined and improved through classroom research using a variety of teachers and student populations.
	www.frontlinephonics.com (355 words)

	Free Phonics Worksheets and Reading Tests, Supporting Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetics, Sight Words and Learning ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Phonics is the set of skills that decode a group of letters into the sounds of a word.
		At Phonics for Free, we have organized phonics into simple skills, created tests to measure these skills and developed hundreds of worksheets to teach phonics skills.
		Click on any of the Phonics sections to access an extensive index of reading tests and phonics worksheets that may be printed free of charge.
	www.readingtarget.com (366 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Education \| The debate about phonics teaching
		Phonics is an accepted part of the government's recommended approach to teaching literacy and few now argue over whether or not it should be used.
		Advocates of synthetic phonics say children should be taught this method fast, first and only.
		Earlier this year the Commons education committee called for a larger-scale study of phonics and the issue became politicised when the Conservatives backed the calls for the introduction of synthetic phonics.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/education/4486814.stm (391 words)

	Phonics for English, Reading, Spelling & Writing Express
		When the phonics codes of the English Language are taught with the phonograms there is simply no need to separately teach the single sounds of hundreds of blends and word families.
		Phonics awareness and auditory processing skills can be more precisely and efficiently taught through spelling rather than randomly taught through "implicit" phonics applied to pronouncing words for reading.
		These phonetic language arts programs may be used for teaching phonics to school and home school children, preschool, kindergarten, first-grade, second-grade and third-grade in primary and elementary grades, gifted, special education, bilingual English as a second language, ESL and EFL.
	www.yesphonics.com (3069 words)

	Pre-K Smarties: Phonics Rules
		Phonics is a word-attack skill in which you "sound-out" difficult words by using the common sounds of letters in the word.
		It is often the first reading skill taught to people and is considered one of the "basic skills".
		Knowledge of phonics is most helpful in linking the words one knows through simply hearing them with the actual written word.
	www.preksmarties.com /reading/reading3.htm (976 words)

	Phonics Home
		Using familiar fables, Phonics and Fables is a total learning experience that includes letter identification, reading, writing, numbers, spatial relation concepts, and social values.
		I believe the greatest strength of the Intensive Phonics program is the systematic approach and how one concept continues on through the entire program and builds upon each other.
		The constant reinforcement of what was learned months ago keeps students alert and remembering all the phonics rules that they will use in their entire lives.
	www.tutorace.com /html/phonics_home.html (751 words)

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