1. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Licensing You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix — to adapt the work Under the following conditions: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the following manner:  This work is based on an original work of the Core Knowledge® Foundation made available through licensing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This does not in any way imply that the Core Knowledge Foundation endorses this work. Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes. Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. With the understanding that: For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to this web page: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ 1

2. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Session 7: Understanding Synthetic Phonics 2

3. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ THE SKILLS STRAND Supporting Children’s Foundational Reading Abilities 3

4. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ The Three Pillar Model of Instruction Foundational Skills and Small Group Instruction Shared Interactive Reading Guided Reading and Guided Accountable Independent Reading 4

5. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ The Three Pillar Model of Instruction Foundational Skills and Small Group Instruction Shared Interactive Reading Guided Reading and Guided Accountable Independent Reading 5

6. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Skills Strand At-A-Glance 60 minutes of instruction daily Explicitly teaches approximately150 spelling patterns Decodable readers cover fiction and nonfiction topics in chapter-book format Explicit support to writing mechanics and the writing process 6

7. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Synthetic Phonics Understanding the Complex Relationship between Sounds and Spellings 7

8. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Activity: Let’s Read… Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. 8

9. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Activity: Let’s Read… Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: 9

10. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Activity: Let’s Read… Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe…. Cloven, oven, how and low, Finally, which rhymes with enough— Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is to give up!!! 10

11. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Knowing your letter-sound patterns Tell me all the sounds this letter pattern can represent: ea  dearest  head  great  heart  creation  heard 11

12. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ When Reading Is Automatic [For expert readers] The component processes of reading (for example, identifying letters) are never conscious. The word ‘pants’ ends up in consciousness, but the mental processes necessary to arrive at the conclusion that the word is pants do not. –Willingham (2009), p. 112 12

13. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Consonants SpellingsSoundsSpellings Sounds Vowels 13

14. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Memorize this List XCN NPH DFB ICI ANC AAX 14

15. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Recall the List 15

16. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Memorize this List X CNN PHD FBI CIA NCAA X 16

17. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Recall the List 17

18. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Recall the List X CNN PHD FBI CIA NCAA X The way we organize information matters to learning. 18

19. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Synthetic Phonics Systematic and explicit approach to phonics instruction. Emphasizes individual sounds (phonemes) in words and the varied ways these sounds can be spelled. Emphasizes oral language skills (blending/segmenting) as a basis of decoding and spelling. 19

20. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Connect or Question Consider what you have heard so far about synthetic phonics and CKLA Skills. What is a point of information that CONNECTS or resonates with you? -or- What is a QUESTION you have? This reflection can be done for your own purposes or you can post your comment or question to the virtual parking lot. todaysmeet.com/K-2ela 20

21. EngageNY.org ©2012 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ BREAK Be Sure:  To be back by 1:00pm.  To note questions on the Parking Lot. 21