The webinar will cover optional phonics review on July 6, 2016 from 7:00-8:00 pm CST. Participants are encouraged to login 10 minutes early and can access the webinar or recording through the provided link. The chat window before the webinar starts invites participants to share their beliefs about teaching phonics. Audio and video should be turned off unless raising a hand to speak. Technical support is available by phone for any login issues.

1. Optional Phonics Review Webinar: Wednesday, July 6, 2016. 7:00-8:00
pm, CST
[The webinar will be recorded!]
Link to Optional Phonics Review
Webinar: https://elearn.uta.edu/webapps/bb-collaborate-
bb_bb60/launchSession/guest?uid=0dafaaa0-a120-4d9f-a470-
b4a09f39af5d
OR VIEW THE RECORDING
Chat window: before the conference
Starts-
What are your beliefs about teaching
phonics?
Please be sure your audio and video
are turned off during the session
unless you raise your hand to speak.
Note: Please login 10
minutes early to the
webinar.
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2. Warm-up
Two Words That Rhyme Will Answer These Questions
1. What do you called a spoiled pet?
2. What do you call a boy who has just lost his puppy?
3. What’s another name for a cool trend?
4. What do you call an 18-wheeler carrying chickens?
5. What do you call a loaf that has been in the sun too
long?
6. What do you call a man who doesn’t like to talk?

3. Ways to interact during the discussion
Use the chat window to ask questions,
share ideas, and contribute to the
dialogue!
Emoticons are encouraged!
Type on the
whiteboard by
using the text box
tool (4th button) or
the pen tool (3rd
button)
Turn on/off your microphone:
Raise your hand if you have
a question or comment:
Use the voting tool to vote
in polls!

4. Quick Interactive Poll @
Phonics/Word Study Instruction-
please vote!• The polling area is next to the hand tool in the Participants
window.
• Did you learn about phonics as a beginning reader?
• Yes
• No
• Feel free to add any other information in the chat window
on approaches to learning phonics/word study!

5. Recommended Optional Text for your own Use (optional!)
for more advanced study beyond the course
Speech to Print: Language Essentials for
Teachers (2nd Ed.) by Louisa Moats

6. Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum (13th Ed.)
by Marilyn Adams Ph.D., Barbara Foorman, Ingvar Lundberg, and Terri Beeler
Additional resources on phonemic
awareness:
http://www.readingrockets.org/articl
e/phonemic-awareness-young-
children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
McJldIFIpC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
58wWI2NMHeQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
xeR1SGiJqdo

7. Review micropodcasts
Email these to yourself and listen on a mobile device!
• https://soundcloud.com/peggy-
semingson/sets/session-1-micropodcasts-
about Emergent Literacy
• https://soundcloud.com/peggy-
semingson/sets/session-2-micropodcasts-
about Beginning Reading

8. Optional: Quizlet
• I recommend using the app or website Quizlet to review
phonics terms!
I located these phonics flashcards sets on Quizlet. They
don't totally align with the phonics quiz but some of the
same terms are also listed on the study guide!
• https://quizlet.com/4306107/phonics-flash-cards/
• More quizzes and tests about phonics can be found
on Quizlet! https://quizlet.com/subject/phonics/
• Quizlet has good review flashcards and quizzes to prepare
in general to be more familiar with the phonics
terminology! :)
• Download the Quizlet app on a mobile device and/or
access the quizzes on your laptop or desktop.

9. Websites for Children
• Reading Bear http://www.readingbear.org/
• Starfall http://www.starfall.com/
• Between the Lions http://pbskids.org/lions/
• PBS phonics games
• http://pbskids.org/games/index.html and
• http://pbskids.org/games/letters.html and
http://pbskids.org/games/reading.html
• Literacy apps to explore:
http://www.readingrockets.org/literacyapps/phonics

10. Kinesthetic Tactile Approach
• http://www.fcrr.org/Curriculum/studentCente
rActivities.shtm
Florida Center for Reading Research
• --Click on student center activities (K/1, 2-3)

11. Key Terms
• Phonological awareness/phonemic
awareness/phonics
• consonant clusters
• consonant digraphs
• consonant blends
• rules for the phonics patterns
• diphthongs
• vowel digraphs
• morphemic analysis

12. Anchor Charts
• Resource:
http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2
016/05/24/20-anchor-charts-to-teach-
phonics-and-blends

13. Activities: Phonological Awareness
Rhyming/Alliteration (alphabet books, tongue twisters, poetry,
songs)
Segmenting Sentences (“being the words”, counting words
in sentences)
Segmenting Syllables (clapping and counting syllables in
names and other words)
Segmenting and blending Onset-rimes (the name
game, “take the /p/ off /pot/ and replace it with /h/”)
Segmenting and blending phonemes (stretching
out the sounds in words--turtle talk, counting the number of phonemes
in a word)

14. Review of basic phonics terms
Source: http://boostforreaders.com/phonicscharts.html

15. Let’s review consonant clusters
(broader category)
• consonant digraphs *(one sound)
– Sheep, chair, phone, whole, whistle
• consonant blends
– blue, tree, clown, flower, glove, plane, sleep

16. Brainstorm examples of
consonant blends below using the pen or typing tool!
• Example: bl-, br-

17. Brainstorm examples of
consonant digraphs below using the pen or typing tool!
• Examples: ph-, sh-, -sh, -ch,

18. More vowel patterns
Poster source;
http://boostforreaders.com/phonicscharts.html
• Diphthong (gliding sound, is
a type of vowel digraph)
• Vowel digraphs (aka vowel
teams)
• Examples: ai, ay, ee, ea, ie,
ei, oo, ou. ow, oe, oo, ue, ey,
ay, oy, oi, au, aw

19. Brainstorm examples of
vowel digraphs (vowel teams) below using the pen or
typing tool!
• Examples: ai, ea, ee, ay, oe and more!

20. Vowel Rules
Posters source: http://boostforreaders.com/phonicscharts.html
• Cvc words=short vowel
• CV=open vowel=long, open
• Vce=long (silent e rule)
• VV=long vowel, rain, eat, boat

21. The Structure of Language
• "Major levels of linguistic structure."
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Major_levels_of_linguistic_structure.svg Wikimedia
Public domain.

22. Morphemes smallest units of meaning
Structural analysis
• Affix=prefix, root, suffix
• “A morpheme is the smallest unit of a word that provides a
specific meaning to a string of letters (which is called a
phoneme). There are two main types of morpheme: free
morphemes and bound morphemes.”
Source: Boundless. “The Structure of Language.” Boundless
Psychology. Boundless, 26 May. 2016. Retrieved 06 Jul.
2016
from https://www.boundless.com/psychology/textbooks/b
oundless-psychology-textbook/language-10/introduction-
to-language-60/the-structure-of-language-234-12769/

23. Word detective: Brainstorm in two minutes the words that can be made with
the morpheme photo (can be at the beginning, middle, or end of the word)
Type on the screen. Tool: mindmeister
• https://www.mindmeister.com/725880633

24. Lesson Steps Activities Materials
Introduction
 connect today’s
lesson to previous
lessons
 give a purpose for
today’s lesson
“Students, you remember that we have been studying the sounds of the alphabet letters. Today
we will learn how to blend the letter sounds together to read words. Learning to blend letter
sounds together is the first big step in learning to read most of the words you’ll see.”
Explicit Teacher
Explanation and
Demonstration
1. Write the word mat on the whiteboard.
2. Point to each letter and make its sound.
3. Blend the three sounds together slowly, then pronounce the word. Sweep your hand below the
letters as you blend the sounds slowly, then tap below the word as you pronounce it.
4. Repeat this blending process with several other short-a CVC words until you feel that the
students are ready to move on.
whiteboard
markers
eraser
Interactive
Guided Practice
1. Write the word sad on the teacher’s whiteboard and have the students write the word sad on
their individual whiteboards.
2. Using the teacher whiteboard as an example, lead the students in blending and pronouncing
the word sad in unison on their whiteboards.
3. Repeat the blending process with the students on several more short-a CVC words. Provide
guidance as needed.
student
whiteboards
markers
eraser
Monitored
Independent Practice
1. Write the word fat on the teacher’s whiteboard. Have the students copy the word onto their
whiteboards.
2. Say to the students, “When I say think, you look at the letters on your whiteboard and figure
out the word in your head. When I say word, you tell me the word.”
3. Repeat this process with more short-a CVC words until you feel that the students are beginning
to understand the blending process well.
4. Have the students read a short-a decodable text for additional practice.
Student
whiteboards
markers
eraser
SOURCE: from Dr. John Smith based on template from Smith and Read, 2009

25. Tip: Use context to teach phonics (e.g., use the word in a
sentence orally or in writing or both)
• Example: Use sentence strips with the target
pattern so students can draw on semantic and
syntactic clues to help with decoding.
• Example, with the rule for silent-e, the
teacher can display this “story” he/she
creates from authentic text.
• Dexter has a new home. He loves his bone
and is almost never alone. He likes to bury his
bone all the time!

26. Building your own background knowledge.
If you have time, watch one or more videos.
• Useful (OPTIONAL) Videos from FCRR:
• 1) Word building and blending:
http://www.fcrr.org/FAIR_Search_Tool/FLVs/launchFAIRplay
er.html?src=598.flv
• 2) Move it closer say it faster:
http://www.fcrr.org/FAIR_Search_Tool/FLVs/launchFAIRplay
er.html?src=599.flv
• 3) Sorting Words
http://www.fcrr.org/FAIR_Search_Tool/FLVs/launchFAIRplay
er.html?src=600.flv

27. Questions?

28. Final tips
• Be sure you have read the entire book
• Do all of the self-checks at the end of each
chapter.
• Do the pre and post test for extra practice.
• OPTIONAL: Review the terms with a partner or
study group (recommended). E.g., meet with a
study partner on Skype or Google Hangout,
FaceTime, or other videochat platform.