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Get Ready to Huddle! Discover Intensive Phonics
(K - 3rd Grade SPED) Huddle 4th Tuesday of
each month at 2 pm MT Please Call 1-888-447-7153
Passcode 8768292 Presented by Joan
Parrish
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Transferring Phonics Skills to Other Academic
Curriculum
The Big Question
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The Misconception of Phonics

• Phonics skills can only be taught in isolation
  during language arts.
• Hinders development of critical thinking skills.
• Phonics and vocabulary skills do not transfer to
  other academic areas.

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Phonics is a part of the total Language Arts
curriculum

• The Language Arts curriculum includes
• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Spelling
• Vocabulary
• Reading
• Grammar / Creative Writing

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Phonics promotes the development of critical
thinking skills

• Systematic phonics lessons are taught by example
  during the learning and the direct application of
  phonetic rules.

• Using phonics develops higher critical thinking
  skills because explicit, systematic phonics
  instruction automatically teaches some aspects of
  formal logic such as decoding and encoding.

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Phonics skills should transfer to other academic
areas.
The five areas of reading instruction (phonemic
awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text
comprehension) must be integrated into
mathematics, science, and social studies to
enrich the students understanding of concepts in
those areas.
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Social Studies

• Phonemic Awareness the ability to notice, think
  about, and work with individual sounds within a
  spoken word. This skill can be taught through
  singing songs, rhymes, and word play.

• Phonics the relationship between letters and
  sounds. Teachers can relate phonics skills with
  social studies trade books that have a repetitive
  initial sound or vowel pattern to reinforce vowel
  patterns and teach content. Poetry is a powerful
  source for both content and phonics.

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Math

• Mathematics the ability to understand the
  relationship of a specific amount and associate
  it to the picture or name of the number (number
  sense).

• Vocabulary
• Selecting certain books to reinforce math
  concepts is very powerful. Students use phonics
  skills to decode and read specific math
  vocabulary, then act out the arithmetic
  computations.

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Science
A phonics lesson using a specific letter sound is
reinforced during a shared science story that
integrates a life, earth, or physical science
concept. Make the concept come to life through
hands-on experiences.
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Spelling Vocabulary
Expand spelling lists by adding vocabulary from
the other content areas of instruction. Students
will be more prepared and have a greater
understanding for reading assignments.
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Reading
Thematic Units Children can be exposed to the
various curriculum areas through literature.
Literature can be broken into thematic units to
teach different skills. Here are a few websites
for teachers regarding thematic units
http//www.techtrekers.com/Thematic.htm
http//www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/rmc/content/thematic_un
its.html http//atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/index
.shtml http//www.carolhurst.com/subjects/curricu
lum.html
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Why integrate phonics skills into other subject
areas?
A balanced approach to learning is provided.

• Enables children to make relevant connections to
  life.

• Promotes the transfer of knowledge to the
  subject areas.

• Provides opportunities for different ways of
  learning kinesthetic, tactile, spatial, visual,
  and auditory.

• Phonics skills are reinforced in contextual
  experiences.

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Questions Answers
What is really important in education is not
that the child learns this and that, but that the
mind is matured, that energy is aroused.
Soren Kierkegaard
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No Huddles in December! Have a great Holiday!
Get Ready for the next Discover Intensive Phonics
Huddle! Syllabication Tuesday, January 27th at
200pm MT