[NIFL-ESL:8002] Re: Whole language

From: Cathy Shank (cshank@access.k12.wv.us)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 14:16:09 EDT


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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


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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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