Integrating Phonics Activities into Your EFL Classroom

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Name: IanFact: I’ve been on

the news.Hardest class

taught: Teaching middle school students

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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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