Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g8GIG9X10220; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:16:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:16:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <000601c25dab$6a7ea270$e601370a@CSHANK> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Cathy Shank" <cshank@access.k12.wv.us> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8002] Re: Whole language X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1764 Lines: 58 Here is what I found out from several sources: Phonemic Awareness: Involves the auditory and oral identification and manipulation of speech sounds (phonemes) Involves understanding that speech is composed of a sequence of phonemes that are recombined to form words Does not involve printed letters. Phonics: The association of letters and sounds to sound out written symbols --Snider A system of teaching reading that builds on the alphabetic principle, a system of which a central component is the teaching of correspondences between letters or groups of letters and their pronunciations --Adams Rhonda Rubin gave me a PowerPoint that juxtaposed the two: Phonemic Awareness -vs- Phonics Auditory -- Visual Speech-based -- Print-centered Spoken language -- Written language Speech sounds (phonemes) have symbols (letters) -- Letters have sounds (phonemes) Connecting phonemes (sounds) to graphemes (letters) --From spelling of word to sounding it out (decoding) Phoneme discrimination -- Letter/word identification Natural units of speech -- Artificial (alphabetic) code Brain and speech-based -- Rule-based (phonics) Frees working memory -- High working memory load -----Original Message----- From: nifl-esl@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-esl@nifl.gov] On Behalf Of AWilder106@aol.com Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 1:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8000] Re: Whole language Dear Marie, Please excuse me, but I am still a little bit confused. I know (I think) that a phoneme is the smallest sound unit. I also think that phonics must be quite a lot larger than this in definition, at least in the way Charles Jannuzi has been using it. Thank you very much for the book citations, they will be useful. Andrea
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