integrating phonics activities into your efl classroom
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Integrating Phonics Activities into Your EFL Classroom
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Welcome
• Find out about the person next to you. Ask:– Name– Something interesting– Hardest class? How did you deal with it?– Something else (your choice)
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Welcome
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Name: IanFact: I’ve been on
the news.Hardest class
taught: Teaching middle school students
Any Questions?
Program
• Approaches to reading instruction• Phonics: what and why?• Incorporating phonics into the classroom
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Approaches to Reading
How do we teach reading in foundation courses?
• What is the whole-language approach?• What is the phonics approach?• Can they exist together?
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Approaches to Reading
The Whole-language Approach
• Words learned as complete words• Reading with little analysis• Read aloud / lots of exposure to words
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Approaches to Reading
Problems with the Whole-language Approach
• Rote memorization• Large oral vocabulary needed• Negative affect when meeting unknown words
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Approaches to Reading
The Phonics Approach
• Focus on sounds and patterns in pronunciation• Read by breaking words up
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Approaches to Reading
Problems with the Phonics Approach
• Can be mechanical• Less focus on meaning • Requires expensive materials
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Phonics
Why Phonics?
• Phonics provides students with essential skills• Can incorporate both approaches to• Learn through play
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Incorporating Phonics
How do I incorporate phonics into my classroom?
• Activities• Games• Stories
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Incorporating Phonics
How do I align activities with my lessons?
• Consider the stakeholders• Consider your aims (reading / speaking issue)• Consider what your are teaching and how your
phonics activity will compliment it
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Incorporating Phonics
Features of good phonics activities
• Fun, active and exciting• Level appropriate and memorable• Provide opportunity for production
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Phonics Activities
Flashcards
• Easy and fun to make• Can be used in meaning-focused activities• Students can take them home
• How many activities can you think of?
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Phonics Activities
Flashcards - Demonstration
• Can I have two volunteers?
• How can you adapt this activity for stronger or weaker students?
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Phonics Activities
Dictations
• Easy and fun to do• Can be used in meaning-focused activities• Active and burns energy
• How many types can you think of?
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Phonics Activities
Dictations - Demonstration
• Can I have two volunteers?
• How can you adapt this activity for stronger or weaker students?
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Phonics Activities
Stories, Chants and Songs
• Requires some preparation• Entertaining and memorable• Incorporate 4-skills / art
• How many types can you think of?
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Phonics Activities
Stories, Songs and Chants - Demonstration
• How can you adapt this activity for stronger or weaker students?
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Wrap-up
• Approaches to reading• Phonics – What and why?• Incorporating phonics into the classroom - Flashcards - Dictations - Stories, songs and chants
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Further Reading• Baumann et al. (1998). Where are teachers’ voices…” The Reading
Teacher. 15(8).• Bear & Templeton. (1998). “Explorations in developmental
spelling.” The Reading Teacher. 52(8). • Cunningham & Cunningham. (2002). In Farstrub & Samuels (eds.)
What research has to say about reading instruction (3rd Ed.).• Paul, D. (2003) Teaching English to Children in Asia. Pearson
Longman.• Stahl, S. (1992). “Saying the P word” The Reading Teacher. 45(8).• Stahl, et al. (1998). “Everything you want to know about phonics.”
Reading Research Quarterly. 33(3).
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