Analogy-Based Phonics Instruction

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Case Study 1 Ricky Smith Liberty University The first alternative approach that I would use to help a student who is struggling with the synthetic approach is the analogy based phonics instruction. According to Vacca et al. (2015) analogy-based phonics instructions teaches children to use their knowledge of letters to represent onsets and rimes in words they already know how to pronounce, rather than their knowledge of letter-phoneme corresponding to pronounce unfamiliar words (p. 189). For example, the student can learn the word mat, based on them knowing the words cat, rat, (words that have -at). The second approach that I would use is the analytic phonics instruction. “Analytic phonics is characteristics as “whole