After completing the reading for the week, consider these questions:
Where does phonics instruction fit within a comprehensive literacy program? When and how would you teach phonics?
Phonics instruction fits within a comprehensive literacy program because the strategies help improve students' comprehension. Teaching phonics helps students learn the fundamentals of words first. Phonics allows students to become aware of the sound units in a language (Weaver, 2002). Students are able to use decoding to determine unfamiliar words. If students know certain onsets and rimes, they should be able to use that knowledge to read new words using those same word parts. Phonemic awareness and learning to read are both reciprocals of each other (Weaver, 2002).
When I taught 2nd grade, we incorporated phonics into our small group reading instruction. These were leveled group. Phonics is something that should be introduced early on and then reviewed throughout the year. To work on phonics, students would trace a word in crayong that focused on our pattern that week, such as week or weak, over knitting board. Then the students would run over the word with their finger one sound at a time while putting the entire word together. This helped the students remember that the sounds blended together.
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