Phonics Instructional Strategies

Question 1

instructional strategies for reading comprehension (c. 7) :

Answer 1

• visualizing (sight words, key details, story setting, etc.)
• asking questions
• making inferences
• picture walks
• book introductions
• introducing vocabulary before reading the text
• making connections to prior or background knowledge

Question 2

instructional strategies for building phonological awareness (c. 7) :

Answer 2

• identifying onset and rime
• segmenting words and/or syllables
• blending word part phonemes
• identifying beginning/middle/end sounds
• identifying affixes (both prefixes and suffixes)
• practicing phoneme deletion/addition/substitution (the hardest!)
• Elkonin box method

Question 3

Elkonin box method:

Answer 3

used for building phonological awareness; a card with a picture and boxes that represent the number of phonemes in the picture name