Phonics And Language Analysis

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Knowledge of early, explicit and systematic phonics is essential for teaching children to read and teachers must understand the role that it plays in improving childhood language and literacy. Throughout this essay I will discuss why phonics is so important,

Numerous proposals have been made to schools, within the last ten years, in trying to promote the support of raising reading standards. Yet limitations remain in teaching children to read, with the result that the standards achieved by many children at the end of the primary years fall stubbornly short of what should be accomplished (The Office for Standards in Education, Childrens Services and Skills, 2010, p. 01)

The fundamentals of teaching reading are laid down from kindergarten through to sixth grade. Teachers know how important it is to develop children’s vocabulary and listen to what children say and mean when they are sounding out words. Teachers also know how to develop, urge and improve reading and the correct instructions to use when trying to overcome the challenges that some children experience, however through analysis's, it suggests that they have not succeeded in doing these things consistently and persistently across all schools (The Office for Standards in Education, Childrens Services and Skills, 2010, p. 01) …show more content…

However reading nowadays is known as the process of constructing meaning through the dynamic interaction among the reader’s existing knowledge, the information suggested by the written language and the context of the reading situation. (Michigan Department of Education, 1989) Clearly, just pronouncing the words is no longer sufficient to participate in today’s society and the demands of a modern