HAUNA PHONICS
HAUNA phonics is a systematic, child centred approach to
teaching literacy skills. Children are taught the sounds of the letters in a
specific order.
Group 1- s, a, m, n, i, p, t
Group 2-r, d, c, k, o, g, l
Group 3- b, u, f, h, j, e, q
Group 4- v, w, x, y, z,
Group 5- ai, ee, ai, oa, ue
Group 6- Ng, ch, th, ah, OO, oo
Group 7-ou, oi, or, er, ar
After completion of one group of letters, children are taught
how to blend and read words.
Words that do not follow the phonics principle are named as
Comm. words or frequently used words. Children are taught four lists of Comm.
words in H3.
List 1
I, me, he, be, to, do, no
List 2
We, was, has, is, his, so, us
List 3
All, go, she, my, are, here, one
List 4
The, them, there, those, this, those, that, then, there
Click to see video of Sounds of phonics:
Further reading:
Understanding Phonics of English language:
So,
what exactly is phonics?
Phonics involves
the relationship between sounds and their spellings. The goal of phonics
instruction is to teach students the most common sound-spelling relationships
so that they can decode, or sound out, words. This decoding ability is a
crucial element in reading success.
So why bother learning phonics?
What makes phonics tricky?
In some languages
learning phonics is easy because each phoneme has just one grapheme to
represent it.
The English language is a bit more complicated than this. This is large because
England has been invaded so many times throughout its history. Each set of
invaders brought new words and new sounds with them.
As
a result, English only has around 44 phonemes but there are around 120
graphemes or ways of writing down those 44 phonemes. Obviously, we only have 26
letters in the alphabet so some graphemes are made up from more than one
letter.
Source:
Hauna phonics is taken from Hauna Preschool systems