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Helping Parents Navigate Phonics

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Webinar Outcomes

• Participants will consider how to support parents implementing phonics strategies at home
• Participants will explore tools to support review of phonics skills

Key Points When Explaining Phonics to Parents

• Phonics is a method of teaching children to read.
• Phonics works by breaking words down into their individual sounds.
• There are 44 different sounds in the English language.
• There are only 26 letters, meaning 18 sounds are comprised of letter combinations.
• Advanced phonics recognizes the relationship of print patterns and bigger word parts (syllables, prefixes, suffixes, root words)

Key Points When Explaining Phonics to Parents

Why is phonics important?

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Phonics makes learning to read and spell easier, simpler and crucially gets children reading quicker.

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“There is no comprehension strategy powerful enough to compensate for the fact that you can’t read the words.”

-Anita Archer

Key Points When Explaining Phonics to Parents

High Frequency Words

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High frequency words are words that frequently appear in student text, and do not follow taught spelling patterns.

High frequency words should be known by sight.

Resources and Tools Parents can Use to Facilitate Phonics Instruction

• Flyleaf Decodable Books and phonics worksheets
• Phonics Games
• Student Center Activities
• Phonics and High Frequency Words
• Reading Bear

Activities Parents can Use to Facilitate Phonics Instruction

High Frequency Words

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• Word Hunt: Look for target words in books or in the newspaper or around the house.
• Go Fish: With a duplicate set of word cards play “Go Fish”
• Word Memory: Using index cards, write out pairs of sight words and place them facedown on a table. Take turns flipping over the cards and reading the words. If you make a match, you keep the cards. The person with the most cards when they are all turned over wins.

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How do I share this information with parents?

• Office Hours (online & via phone)
• Virtual platforms
• Paper copies sent home with directions and pictures

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Contact Info

Des Arnold’s Zoom Room - https://paiu.zoom.us/j/8995976902

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Literacy TaC

Des Arnold - daarnold@iu12.org

Corinne Conner - ceconner@iu12.org

Becky Blahus - rablahus@iu12.org

Lorrie Hyreck - llhyrcek@iu12.org

Jess Miller - jamiller@iu12.org

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