APPROACH

APPROACH 1. What is Synthetic Phonics? First of all, we must bear in mind that Synthetic Phonics is not a foreign language teaching method. It is a method used for teaching children to read and write in their own mother tongue. 2. Synthetic Phonics and... More

APPROACH 1. What is Synthetic Phonics? First of all, we must bear in mind that Synthetic Phonics is not a foreign language teaching method. It is a method used for teaching children to read and write in their own mother tongue. 2. Synthetic Phonics and Analytic Phonics Traditionally, children were taught to read using ‘analytic phonics’. With this method, children start out by recognising whole words and later they analyse their constituent parts, as in “s-un” and “cr-ab”. . This method teaches children to analyse a word, taking clues from recognition of the whole word, the initial sound, and the context. It also uses patterns in spelling. In synthetic phonics, individual sounds are blended to form groups of sounds, and those groups are then blended to form complete words. For example: the sounds /a/ /t/ can be grouped into “at”, and, with the sound /b/ then further blended to form the word “bat”. Children are taught the 42 sounds of English, not just the alphabet sounds. If Less