talking about phonics today. That is the

second step of the reading process

remember there's five steps. We have

phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary,

and comprehension. So we're talking about

phonics today. Phonics is going to be

that ability to be bringing the sounds

together with the symbols. So, it's the

sound symbol relationship. It's also

called the alphabetic principle.

If I were to give you the /b/ sound,

could you put that together with the

letter B? If I were to say /t/, would you know

that would be the sound that the letter

T makes? So we're matching now the sound

with the symbol relationship. We often

teach this by learning all beginning

sounds. So, over here we have the Sun.

And for the Sun, if I had the

letters in front of me can I pull out

and match the 'S' for that beginning sound.

/s/ The 'S' goes /s/. For Apple, can I bring out the

/a/, the letter 'A', because the letter A

makes that sound. And for table can I

pull out the letter 'T' because table

begins with /t/. So, that's what's phonics is.

It's the alphabetic principle:

the principle of bringing the sounds

with the symbols together and that's

critical for both spelling and writing

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