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School-to-Home Connection for Phonics
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Dr. Patrick Groff, San Diego State University, sates that the essence of phonics can be expressed on the back of an envelope. He has graciously supplied the following synopsis. |
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Information About Phonics - for Parents
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Letters of the alphabet represent the sounds of speech. |
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The short vowels sounds are: |
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Attaching short vowels to consonant sounds makes ab-eb-ib-ob-ub, or ba-be-bi-bo-bu, or bat-bet-bit-bot-but, or brag-bled-drip-stop-drum, or fast-rest-fist-cost-must, or grand-blend-brisk-frost-crust. |
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The long vowel sounds are: /a/ as in game, /e/ in Pete, /i/ in pine, /o/ in home, /u/ in cute. The long vowel sounds can be represented with two joined letters: fail, play; seen, leaf; die; boat. |
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The diphthongs are /oy/ as in oil or boy, and /ow/ as in howl or out. |
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Two important vowel sounds are /oo/ in foot, and /oo/ as in boot. |
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Long vowels, diphthongs and /oo/ and /oo/ attached to consonant sounds make up many words (the same way short vowels do) |
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Some consonant sounds are spelled with two letters (digraphs): /ch/ as in change, /sh/ in shop, /th/ in this |
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Some speech sounds are represented by exceptional spellings: be,
myth, prince, fence, find, salt, cough,
rough, though, through, both, who, two,
rude, and others. Some words have silent letters: comb, write, bubble, middle, cuff, full, common, connect, poppy, tarry, miss, butter and buzz. |
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All words are sounded-out left-to-right when phonic information is applied to them. |
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