

Students need to understand that spoken words are formed with various sounds and those sounds are represented with various letter combinations when writing.
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The alphabet letters form the code for encoding and decoding words. Phonemic awareness and synthetic phonics are the skills students need to quickly and efficiently decode words when reading and encode words when writing. Nobody would say that they form a complete maths program. Phonemic awareness and synthetic phonics skills are to literacy as counting and recognising and writing numbers are to maths. However, phonemic awareness and synthetic phonics are just skills. A working knowledge of phonemic awareness MUST be achieved before synthetic phonics can be successfully introduced. Synthetic phonics is based on well-developed phonemic awareness of all 43 sounds we use in our spoken English. Teacher education in the spotlight from Sound Waves and Sound Stories author, Barbara Murray

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