Assessing Phonics

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Assessing Phonics

• Kelly Hunter,
• Literacy Fellow
• Thursday, February 1, 2007
• 415 - 530 PM
• Winter Conference
• Stamford, CT

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Assessing Teaching Learning

• Teaching is what happens outside the head
  learning is what happens inside the head.
• -taken from Understanding and Working with
  Students and Adults from Poverty by Ruby K.
  Payne, Ph.D.

learning
teaching
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Continuation of Phonics Focus Group

• What you need to know
• Research highlighting the importance
• Definition of phonics terms
• Phonics Scope and Sequence (Stages 1-7)
• Four-part phonics lesson
• Opportunities for assessment on the go or
  assessment to inform instruction

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Continuous Professional Development Stage 2
Adult experience

• at
• 2 a - t
• itch
• 2 i - tch
• spring
• 5 s-p-r-i-ng
• chew
• 2 ch - ew
• scrunch
• 6 s-c-r-u-n-ch

queen 3 qu-ee-n sprint 6 s-p-r-i-n-t crash 4
c-r-a-sh bright 4 b-r-igh-t know 2 kn-ow
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44 Phonemes

• Stage 1
• How to listen and discriminate sounds, how to
  hear and generate words and phrases that rhyme
• Stage 2
• 29 phoneme/ grapheme correspondences, initial
  position
• Stage 3
• Hearing the final phoneme