Now I'm actually not of the camp that says we should start only with letter sounds and wait to learn letter names. Number one, when you introduce letters of the alphabet, consider starting with the letter's sound. When you join us, you'll get lifetime access to the course, which includes eight video modules of practical video trainings with printable transcripts, charts and reference sheets, printable assessment forms, and dozens and dozens of low-prep student activities. Imagine having the knowledge and tools you need to meet the varied needs of all your learners. If you're passionate about growing engaged, proficient readers, but every year you have a few students who just don't get it, Teaching Every Reader is for you. **If you're listening in real time, mark your calendar for May 16th, 2022, when we open the doors to our online course, Teaching Every Reader, our comprehensive training for K-2 educators. So how do we do that? How do we make sure that our students have the alphabetic principle? Today I want to share five things that you can do. Any speech sound can be represented with a letter or collection of letters from the alphabet." Also in her book, O'Connor reminds us that the alphabetic principle should be established as early as possible, definitely by the end of kindergarten. Any word that we say can be broken into speech sounds. O'Connor in her fantastic book, Teaching Word Recognition, and she writes, "The alphabetic principle can be understood in this way. If learners don't also have a strong understanding of the alphabetic principle, they're missing a big piece to the puzzle when it comes to reading and spelling."Ī great definition of the alphabetic principle comes from Rollanda E. I'd always thought that if learners had two important skills, they were good to go as readers and spellers: phonemic awareness and knowledge of letter sounds. I'm sure I'd heard the phrase before, and I'm sure I'd even learned what it meant, but when I actually understood its role in teaching beginning readers and helping struggling readers, it all became very clear. "I'm telling you when I began to truly understand the alphabetic principle, it absolutely blew my mind. The alphabetic principle is something that we as teachers might take for granted, but as it turns out, a lot of our students don't acquire this as naturally as we might think.īecky Spence, who is the creator of This Reading Mama and the co-author of my online course Teaching Every Reader, wrote this on her website, For example, the letter D represents the sound /d/. In other words, we use graphemes to represent phonemes, a letter or group of letters to represent a single sound.
#Alphabetic understanding code
The alphabetic principle is this idea that print is a code for sounds.
Hello, Anna Geiger here from The Measured Mom, and welcome to Episode 73 of Triple R Teaching, where we're going to look at five ways to build the alphabetic principle.
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