What do I hear, what do I see? Why Speech-to-Print is the gold star approach to teaching English phonics
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| Friday, June 4, 2021 |
| 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM |
| Education Show stage |
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Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify and manipulate individual speech sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. It is an undisputed predictor of early literacy success. Phonemic awareness is essential and fundamental to mapping speech to print. Many learners who struggle in literacy acquisition have poor phonemic awareness. They cannot relate or understand that words are made up of individual phonemes. If a learner cannot hear the phonemes in a word, they are unable to blend them to articulate the word - an essential skill for reading. Likewise, they will have difficulty connecting sounds with symbols for writing.
To remediate these learners requires that teachers themselves have good phonemic awareness and understand how to build and develop phonemic awareness capacity in their learners. Building Phonemic awareness capacity allows the teacher to teach the correct introduction and understanding of the Alphabetic Principle and to teach speech to print mapping, which leads to reading fluency and comprehension. The THRASSCHART is the ultimate Speech-to-Print map.
Speaker
Denyse Ritchie
Principal
The THRASS Institute
What do I hear, what do I see? Why Speech-to-Print is the gold star approach to teaching English phonics
Biography
Denyse Ritchie has been a teacher, university lecturer, teacher trainer and author. Her specific focus is currently in teacher training. She, along with her team of professional trainers, works in many remote indigenous communities, mainstream schools, and international schools. She has actively contributed to studies in Macau and Indonesia on the direct effects of teacher subject knowledge in English linguistics and phonetics and student.
