| The Phonics Practice Page Phonics for most people is about cat sat mat back Jack lack. Phonics for middle school means "gracious" and "gratitude" and "gratuitous." The GRA in these words is not always the same. ... and your child sometimes confuses the sounds. We learn to read longer words by practicing and recognizing the patterns. "Hey, I know that gracious = grace = long A. I know that gratitude = grat like rat = short A, so gratuitous is like gratitude." I encourage parents to continue to read to their children. We all benefit from hearing how other people pronounce long words. deoxyribonucleic acid DNA ribonucleic acid RNA. You can see more about these groups at www.angelfire.com/fl4/beautiful This is also called the "Beautiful and Ugly" method of grouping sounds. Everyone can improve their reading speed and ability to recognize words by looking at words grouped by phonics (especially when they are grouped by the vowel sound). http://www.psych-ed.org/Download/Sounds.doc Contact Mr. Mac if your child reads with difficulty. It is probably a good idea to focus on these words so that the student sees the patterns. Almost every child can improve reading speed with phonics (the study of sounds). And remember... FAN -- Finger under the words, Attention and Notebook when reading for 30 minutes every night. |
| Go to DATA READING page Go to SUNSHINE STATE STANDARDS for Reading and Language Arts Go to RECOMMENDATIONS DataRecommend Go to 1000 Books Page Data1000 Go to Protect Your Ears Dataears This page is called DataPhonics or the PHONICS practice INTRODUCTION to the students |
| A list of useful LINKS datausefullinks COMING SOON: Financial Information These links are here to allow students and parents to review some of the topics that students have covered in the school. Many of the subjects are briefly coverd in school, so this web page gives students a chance to review information that they might have missed.... |
| Find 3 more words that sound like each of these sounds. The long A sound. LONGER WORDS play day say gracious rain pain grace race grate they hey! eight neighbor great Long E sound see sweet eat wheat Pete eve even believe receive conceited Long I sound bite write night right sky my Long O sound go hope boat throw Long U sound you shoe blue tune moon |