Analytic phonics

Analytic Phonics

What is it?

 A method of teaching phonics that has children ‘analyzing a word’, taking clues from recognition of the whole word, the initial sound and the context.

(http://www.getreadingright.com.au/analytic-phonics-vs-synthetic-phonics/)

Why is it important?

Analytic phonics shows us as instructors what to stray away from while teaching our students how to read and write. Analytic phonics tends to encourage guessing and put too much focus and attention on the first phoneme. Rather than study how important each letter's position in the word is, analytic phonics draws attention to one specific sound, onset, or rhyme in order to figure out what the word could be. It spends more time teaching students what sound each letter in the alphabet makes rather than how these sounds interact with one another to form new sounds. This is going to make reading fairly tricky and spelling very frustrating for the student.